GeForce 8600 GT and Mobility Radeon X1700 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Mobility Radeon X1700
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G84
M66-P
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
February 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
475 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
5 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
157 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
17
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
1.900
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR/DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A