GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon X1950 PRO AGP - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon X1950 PRO AGP
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G84
RV570
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
575 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
330 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
66 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
6.900
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1380 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
44.16 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A