NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 295 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

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

208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 295 +684%

0.596 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 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

-

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

-

30

SM Count

4

240

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

28

ROPs

8

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

46.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

596.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

74.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

289W

TDP

47W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

G84

G200-401-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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