GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
+784%
336
GeForce 8600 GS
38
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
14
SM Count
2
112
Shading Units
16
56
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
8
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
47W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
G84
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
