GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon HD 6290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs Radeon HD 6290
GeForce 8600 GS
94
Radeon HD 6290
108
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon HD 6290
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Zacate
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
July 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
400 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
280 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
104 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
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
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