GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon R2 Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon R2 Graphics
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
G84
Beema
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
351 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
179.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
930 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
128
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
2.808
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131