NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 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 GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 +527%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

4

192

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

28

ROPs

8

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

G84

G200-103-B3

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

470 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

1.3

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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