NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 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 460 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 X2 +1139%

0.942 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

4

336

Shading Units

32

56

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.814 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

39.26 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

941.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

78.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

G84

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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