GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 6350A - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 6350A
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Cedar
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
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
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
5.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
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