GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon RX 5900 XT - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon RX 5900 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
Navi 21
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
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Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1735 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
21,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
4352
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
471.9
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
672.0 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
-
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
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