Radeon R7 250 and GeForce 8600 GTS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 250 vs GeForce 8600 GTS
Radeon R7 250
1100
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
Radeon R7 250
GeForce 8600 GTS
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Oland XT
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
April 2007
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
1x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
716.8 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
32
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.20
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1150 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-