GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce 6800 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs GeForce 6800 GT
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce 6800 GT
146
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 6800 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
NV45
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
June 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
540 MHz
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
222 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
67 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
5.600
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
32 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 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