Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce 8600 GTS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 vs GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon HD 3850
404
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon HD 3850
GeForce 8600 GTS
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
668 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
32
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
32 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A