NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition +1070%

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

4

448

Shading Units

32

56

TMUs

16

40

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

640 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

215W

TDP

60W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

G84

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

144 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

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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