GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon HD 6450 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 6450
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon HD 6450
203
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 6450
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2011
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
750 MHz
Core clock speed
675 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
160
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
8.5-12.8 GB/x (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5)
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
4
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
1.1
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-