NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Score

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

NV41

-

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

130 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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