GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon X300 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon X300
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
G84
RV370
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
375 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
107 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
36 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
1.500
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A