GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
540 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
448.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
128
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
125 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
46.40
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
64 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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