NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM +57%

0.12 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

6

32

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

12

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G94

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

240 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

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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