GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon X1650 XT - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon X1650 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G84
RV560
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
525 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
330 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
55 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
4.200
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A