NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 205 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (31W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS +106%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 205 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce 205 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

2

32

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

31W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GT218

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GT218-200-B1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.2

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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