GeForce 8600M GT SLI and Radeon RX 580X Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce 8600M GT SLI

Radeon RX 580X Mobile

Architecture

G8x (2007−2008)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

NB8P-GS

Polaris

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

October 2007

January 2019

Interface

-

MXM-B (3.0)

Boost clock speed

-

1340 MHz

Core clock speed

475 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

598 Million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

20 Watt

65-110 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

155.1

Memory type

GDDR3, GDDR2

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

700 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

10

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

-

2.0

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.2.131