GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon X1600 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs Radeon X1600 XT
GeForce 8600 GS
94
Radeon X1600 XT
118
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon X1600 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G84
RV530
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
590 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
157 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
42 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
2.360
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1380 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
22.08 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A