GeForce 8600 GTS and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
Steam Deck GPU
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
Van Gogh
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2022
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1600 MHz
Core clock speed
675 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
2,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
512
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
51.20
Memory type
GDDR3
LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
88 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x USB Type-C
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2