Radeon R9 370 1024SP and GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon R9 370 1024SP
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Trinidad
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2015
September 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
-
Core clock speed
925 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,997 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
32
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
62.40
10.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5600 MHz
2016 MHz
Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
32.26 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A