NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +1865%

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2016

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1026 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GM206

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GM206-251-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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