GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon HD 7670 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon HD 7670 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Turks
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
768.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
480
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
66 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
19.20
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 DisplayPort, 1x VGA
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