GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
RV630
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
168 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
390 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
120
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
5.600
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A