NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 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 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (81.60GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 +885%

0.749 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

81.60GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

6

32

Shading Units

288

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.20 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

748.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

62.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF114

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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