GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon HD 8830M - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon HD 8830M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
G84
Venus
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
December 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
625 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
575 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
640
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
25.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131