NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 95W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT +123%

0.208 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 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

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

8

32

Shading Units

64

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

95W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G94

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

240 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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