GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon R5 340 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon R5 340 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
G84
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
May 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
780 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
730 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
599.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
384
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
18.72
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
4600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
36.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
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