Radeon HD 4860 and GeForce 8600M GT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4860
GeForce 8600M GT
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
RV790
G84M
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2009
June 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
475 MHz
Floating-point performance
896.0 gflops
60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
959 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
32
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
22.40
7.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3000 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
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