GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon R7 430 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon R7 430 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
G84
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
June 2016
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
780 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
730 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
599.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
384
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
18.72
Memory type
DDR2
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131