GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (768GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
+875%
907
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
4
336
Shading Units
32
56
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
8
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
60W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
G84
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
