
GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon RX 6800 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs Radeon RX 6800 XT
GeForce 8600 GT
127
Radeon RX 6800 XT
25787
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon RX 6800 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
Navi 21
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
November 2020
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
2250 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
1825 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
26,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
648.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2