GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 4250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 4250
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon HD 4250
126
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 4250
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
RV6xx (2007−2010)
GPU code name
G84
RS880M
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
May 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
47.52 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
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
2.376
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
792 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
6.336 GB/s
Shared memory
-
+
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)
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