GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon X1950 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon X1950 GT
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon X1950 GT
109
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon X1950 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G84
RV570
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
500 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
57 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
6.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
38.4 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