Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and GeForce 8600 GTS - video card comparison
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
GeForce 8600 GTS
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Amethyst
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2014
April 2007
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
850 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,482 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
32
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
108.8
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5448 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
174.3 GB/s
32 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.3
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A