NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 6 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB +5368%

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

32

192

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK110B

GPU Name

G84

GK110-301-B1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

47W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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