GeForce 8600 GT and FirePro V4800 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
FirePro V4800
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
April 2007
April 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
775 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
620.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
400
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
69 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
15.50
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A