GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Juniper
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
July 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
750 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
640
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
64 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
24.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
64 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A