NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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

Released 1 years and 2 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 +527%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 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

GT200

GPU Name

G84

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

576 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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