GeForce 8600 GS vs Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking978not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.28no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeG84
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores19216
Core clock speedno data540 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data289 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Watt47 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.320
Floating-point processing powerno data0.03808 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 47 Watt

R5 (Stoney Ridge) has an age advantage of 9 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 291.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) and GeForce 8600 GS. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while GeForce 8600 GS is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
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