GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon X300 SE - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon X300 SE
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
G84
RV370
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
325 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
107 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
1.300
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
3.2 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A