GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon R5 340X OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon R5 340X OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
G84
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
May 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
675 MHz
900 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
806.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
384
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
21.60
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
16 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131