NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +4702%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

768

Shading Units

16

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G84

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

-

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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