GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 4200 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 4200
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon HD 4200
114
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 4200
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
RV6xx (2007−2010)
GPU code name
G84
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
September 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
40
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
2.000
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
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)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.0
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A