GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
320
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
72.06 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