GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon 3100 IGP - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon 3100 IGP
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
RS780
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
August 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
344 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
180 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
40
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
1.376
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.0
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A