NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS 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 16.13GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (40W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS +5%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce 9500 GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

4

32

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

40W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G96

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

G96-259-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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