NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX +198%

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

12

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

140W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

G92

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

324 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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