NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
VS
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
VS
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
144
0.71
Value for money (0-100)
49.79
Tesla
Architecture
RDNA 1.0
G84
Code name
Navi 14
Desktop
Type
Desktop
17 April 2007 (14 years ago)
Release date
12 December 2019 (1 year ago)
$159
Launch price (MSRP)
$169
$113 (0.7x MSRP)
Price now
$825 (4.9x MSRP)
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Value for money
19.07
G84
GPU code name
Navi 14 XTX
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

32
Pipelines
1408
540 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
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Boost Clock
1845 MHz
289 million
Transistor count
6,400 million
80 nm
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
47 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
8.6 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
162.4
76.16 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
32
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
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Boost clock speed
1845 MHz
289 million
Number of transistors
6,400 million
47 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
130 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT.

PCIe 1.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
170 mm
Length
180 mm
None
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
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SLI options
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR6
512 MB
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
700 MHz
Memory clock speed
1750 MHz
22.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
256 MB
Standard memory config per GPU
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT, the size and number of monitors.

2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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HDMI
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Cheaper ($113 (0.7x MSRP) vs $825 (4.9x MSRP))

Less power consumption (47 Watt vs 130 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (512 MB vs 8 GB)

Advantages of AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

42.03% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1408 vs 32)

Finer manufacturing process technology (7 nm vs 80 nm)

More memory bandwidth (224.0 GB/s vs 22.4 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT .

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT versus AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT performance benchmarks comparison

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