Radeon RX 580 and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon RX 580
9140
GeForce 8600 GT
127
Radeon RX 580
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1257 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,175 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
32
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
193.0
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A