NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 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 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 +2286%

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

768MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

7

16

Shading Units

336

8

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

160W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF104

-

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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