NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 X2 +912%

0.942 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

7

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

336

Shading Units

32

56

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.814 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

39.26 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

941.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

78.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

G84

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-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

Board Design

160W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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