Radeon R7 350 and GeForce 8600 GTS - video card comparison
Radeon R7 350
GeForce 8600 GTS
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Cape Verde
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2016
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
800 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
819.2 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
32
Power consumption (TDP)
55 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.60
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
32 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A