GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GS vs GeForce FX 5500
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce FX 5500
8
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce FX 5500
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G84
NV34 B1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
4.320
1.080
Memory type
DDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
332 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
5.312 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0a
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A