GeForce 8600 GS vs Radeon HD 8990

The values for the video cards below are determined from thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and are updated daily.

The first section will show basic information for each Video Card selected.
The first graph shows the G3D Mark values of each Videocard selected.
The second graph, if price data is available, will shows the value for money, in terms of the G3DMark per dollar.

	×GeForce 8600 GS	×Radeon HD 8990
Price	Search Online	Search Online
Bus Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
GPU Class	Desktop	Desktop
Core Clock	540 MHz	950 MHz
Memory Clock	800 MHz	1500 MHz
Maximum Memory Supported	512 MB	3072 MB
DirectX	10.0	11.1
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Max TDP	47W	375W
First Seen on Chart	Q2 2009	Q4 2013
# of Samples	93	26
Average Results (% diff. to max in group)
DirectX 9	5 FPS (-93.4%)	76 FPS
DirectX 10	NA	33 FPS
DirectX 11	NA	46 FPS
DirectX 12	NA	18 FPS
GPU Compute	NA	2632 Ops/Sec
G2D Rating	100 (-84.8%)	658
G3D Rating	92 (-98.2%)	5214

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