GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce 6600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs GeForce 6600
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce 6600
89
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 6600
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
August 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
4.320
2.400
Memory type
DDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A