NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 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 9500 GS 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.13GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (40W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS +131%

0.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

504 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

2

32

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

40W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

G84

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

144 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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