NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX +631%

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

12

16

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

140W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G92

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

324 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

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