NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560 +2765%

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

2

336

Shading Units

16

56

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

G84

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

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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