GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 315 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 315 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G84
GT216
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
475 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
105.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
486 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
48
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
7.600
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1580 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
12.64 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A