NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 340 OEM 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 69W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (27.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 340 OEM +576%

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce GT 340 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

27.20GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

12

16

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

69W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GT215

-

GPU Variant

GT215-301-A3

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.2

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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