GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 2900 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 2900 GT
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon HD 2900 GT
301
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 2900 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
601 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
288.48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
240
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
7.212
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
51.2 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)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A