NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

Score

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G71

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

G71-GT2-H-N-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.278 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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