GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon R3 Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon R3 Graphics
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
G84
Beema
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
-
600 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
267 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
930 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
128
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
4.800
Memory type
DDR2
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131