
GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon HD 5470 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs Radeon HD 5470
GeForce 8600 GS
94
Radeon HD 5470
276
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon HD 5470
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Cedar
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
104.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
80
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
5.200
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A