GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon 9700 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon 9700
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon 9700
55
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon 9700
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
G84
R300
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
July 2002
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
Floppy
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
110 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
37 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
2.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
540 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
17.28 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 (9_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A