NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Ti 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 660 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti +3365%

2.634 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

980 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1344

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK104

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GK104-300-KD-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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