GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce 9300 GE - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs GeForce 9300 GE
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce 9300 GE
78
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 9300 GE
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84
G98
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
8
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
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Texture fill rate
4.320
4.320
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A