GeForce 8600 GS and Radeon X1650 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs Radeon X1650
GeForce 8600 GS
94
Radeon X1650
73
GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon X1650
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G84
RV516
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
635 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
107 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
4.320
2.540
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
784 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.272 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