Radeon HD 3470 and GeForce 8600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3470 vs GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon HD 3470
122
GeForce 8600 GS
94
Radeon HD 3470
GeForce 8600 GS
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV620
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
800 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
64 gflops
38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
181 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
40
16
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
4.320
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
15.2 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A