GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 6100 + nForce 405 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 6100 + nForce 405
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
C61
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
425 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
0.43
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A