GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce 7600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs GeForce 7600 GS
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce 7600 GS
162
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 7600 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
G73
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
177 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
27 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
4.800
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.8 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