GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs GeForce 8600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1201MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
+3136%
2460
GeForce 8600 GT
76
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
-
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
1024
Shading Units
32
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.640 GTexel/s
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
76.16 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
G84
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
