NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490 +2968%

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

16

60

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G84

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

365W

TDP

47W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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