NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1648 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+10215%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GS
0.038 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
1664
Shading Units
16
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
47W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
G84
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
398 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
