NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 295 +540%

0.596 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

1000 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/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

5.400 GPixel/s

46.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

596.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

74.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

289W

TDP

60W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

G84

G200-401-B3

GPU Variant

G84-400-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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