
GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon Steam Deck 8CU - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon Steam Deck 8CU
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
RDNA 2 Sephiroth
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
November 2023
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
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1900 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
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Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
6 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
512
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
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Texture fill rate
4.320
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Memory type
DDR2
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Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
800 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12_1
CUDA
1.1
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OpenCL
1.1
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OpenGL
3.3
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Shader Model
4.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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