NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280 +1536%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

30

16

Shading Units

240

8

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

236W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GT200

-

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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