Caicos and GeForce 8600 GTS - video card comparison

Caicos

GeForce 8600 GTS

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Caicos

G84

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

April 2007

Interface

-

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 6-pin

SLI options

-

+

Core clock speed

-

675 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

92.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

370 million

289 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

160

32

Power consumption (TDP)

-

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

10.8 billion/sec

Memory type

-

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

-

256 MB

Memory bus width

-

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

32 GB/s

Standard memory config per GPU

-

256 MB

Display Connectors

-

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

4.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A