GeForce 7900 GS and GeForce 8600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7900 GS vs GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 7900 GS
261
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce 7900 GS
GeForce 8600 GS
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G71
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2006
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
450 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
16
Power consumption (TDP)
49 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.000
4.320
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1320 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
42.24 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A