Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 8600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4850 vs GeForce 8600 GS
Radeon HD 4850
1057
GeForce 8600 GS
94
Radeon HD 4850
GeForce 8600 GS
Architecture
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV770
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
625 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,000.0 gflops
38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
16
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.00
4.320
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
993 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
63.55 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A