Radeon R7 260X and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon R7 260X
3282
GeForce 8600 GT
127
Radeon R7 260X
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Bonaire
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
April 2007
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
32
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
61.60
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.3
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-