NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock888MHz

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1136 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM +5284%

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

823 MHz

-

Boost Clock

888 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1152

8

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

130W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK104

-

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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