GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
RV630
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
June 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
173.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
390 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
120
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
6.400
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
25.6 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)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A