NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM 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 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM +215%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

12

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

48

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

24.00 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G92B

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

260 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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