NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +8452%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1536

8

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

195W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK104

-

GPU Variant

GK104-400-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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