NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 197W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2 +405%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 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

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

16

32

Shading Units

128

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

197W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G92

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

324 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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