GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon RX 590 GME
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
G84
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2020
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1420 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
204.5
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3