GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon 9000 LE - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon 9000 LE
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
G84
RV250
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
July 2002
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
250 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
36 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
28 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
1.000
Memory type
DDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
8.1
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.4
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A