GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce 9500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce 9500 GT
162
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 9500 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84
G96
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
540 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
32
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
32
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
4.320
8.8 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A