NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1076MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
2784 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+6416%
6.06 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 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
1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
2816
Shading Units
32
176
TMUs
16
96
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
G84
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
8 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
601 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
