NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +2305%

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

-

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G84

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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