NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 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 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 +1980%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

16

32

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

244W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF110

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

3 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

520 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

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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