Radeon Instinct MI100 vs GeForce 8600 GT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1309not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.47no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)CDNA 1.0 (2020)
GPU code nameG84Arcturus
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)16 November 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores327680
Core clock speed540 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1502 MHz
Number of transistors289 million50,000 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)47 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate8.640721.0
Floating-point processing power0.07616 TFLOPS23.07 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs16480

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length170 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3HBM2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB32 GB
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s1,229 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)N/A
Shader Model4.0N/A
OpenGL2.1N/A
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 16 November 2020
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 32 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 300 Watt

8600 GT has 538.3% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI100, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1042.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon Instinct MI100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8600 GT is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI100 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
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