GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 3750 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 3750
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
RV635
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
796 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
191.04 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
378 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
120
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
6.368
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1386 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
22.18 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)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A