GeForce 8600 GS and GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
G84
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1733 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
1607 MHz
Floating-point performance
38.08 gflops
8,873 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
180 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.320
277.3
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
11008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
352.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131