GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 5450 PCI - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 5450 PCI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Cedar
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
80
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
5.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
666 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
5.328 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A