GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon X1950 XT - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon X1950 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G84
R580+
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
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
384 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
96 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
10.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
57.6 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