NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250 +409%

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

4

128

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

G84

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

260 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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