NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)

Lower TDP (47W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS +594%

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

2

96

Shading Units

16

48

TMUs

8

12

ROPs

8

-

48 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

47W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

G84

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

169 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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