GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce GT 530 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce GT 530 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G84
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
May 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
540 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
96
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
11.20
Memory type
DDR2
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A