GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 256 DDR - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 256 DDR
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
G84
NV10 A3
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
December 1999
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
120 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
220 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
17 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
0.48
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
300 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
4.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x VGA
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
7.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A