GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 4520 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 4520
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
RV710
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
December 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
242 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
80
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
4.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A