GeForce 8600 GT and 3D Rage PRO AGP - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
3D Rage PRO AGP
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 3 (1997−1998)
GPU code name
G84
Rage 3
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 1997
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 2x
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
75 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
350 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
8 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
0.08
Memory type
GDDR3
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
75 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
600.0 MB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x VGA
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
6.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A