NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2000

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

NV15

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

Tesla

Architecture

Celsius

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

180 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

7.0

3.3

OpenGL

1.5

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

-

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