GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon 680M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon 680M
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon 680M
6351
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon 680M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
RDNA 2 Rembrandt
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
2400 MHz
Core clock speed
675 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
6 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
13,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
768
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
115.2
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
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 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2