NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 OEM 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 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 OEM +839%

0.874 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

7

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

336

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.100 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

873.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

72.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF104

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GF104-325-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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