GeForce 8600 GS and Mobility Radeon 9700 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
Mobility Radeon 9700
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
G84
M11
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
June 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
-
450 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
2 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
76 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
6
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
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Texture fill rate
4.320
1.800
Memory type
DDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 / 64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A