GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 5570 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 5570
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon HD 5570
493
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 5570
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
520.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
400
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
13.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
667 - 900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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