GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
750 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
160
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
27 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
-
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
-
OpenGL
2.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
-