Radeon RX 570 and GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon RX 570
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Polaris 20 Ellesmere
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
September 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1244 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1168 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,095 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
32
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
159.2
10.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
2016 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
32.26 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
FreeSync
+
-