GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
G84
Spectre SL
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
September 2014
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
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655 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
533 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
2,410 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
192
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
17 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
6.396
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
6.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131