NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 470 X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (107.1GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 470 X2
+819%
0.855 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
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
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
107.1GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
11
SM Count
4
352
Shading Units
32
44
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
13.38 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
26.75 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
855.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
60W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
3x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
G84
GF100-030-A3
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
529 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
