GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon X1300 CE - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon X1300 CE
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ultra-Threaded SE
GPU code name
G84
RV505
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
107 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
27 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
1.400
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 MBps
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A