GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs Radeon RX 590
GeForce 8600 GT
127
Radeon RX 590
9695
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
G84
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
12 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
222.5
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+