
GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon R4 (Beema) - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon R4 (Beema)
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon R4 (Beema)
411
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon R4 (Beema)
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.1 (2014)
GPU code name
G84
Beema
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2007
April 2014
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
128
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
-
Memory type
GDDR3
-
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
-
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (FL 12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
-
OpenGL
2.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
-