NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 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 25.60GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS +3%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

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

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/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)

89.60 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G96C

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

G96-300-C1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

121 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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