GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon 7000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs Radeon 7000
GeForce 8600 GT
127
Radeon 7000
2
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon 7000
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name
G84
RV100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2001
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
183 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
180 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
30 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
0.55
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
366 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
2.928 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
7.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.3
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A