NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 +412%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

192

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GT200

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

182W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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