GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon HD 8490 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce 8600 GS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

G84

Caicos

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

July 2013

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

540 MHz

875 MHz

Floating-point performance

38.08 gflops

280.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

289 million

370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

Power consumption (TDP)

47 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

4.320

7.000

Memory type

DDR2

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

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