GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
G84
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
320
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
20.60
Memory type
DDR2
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-