GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 6200 PCI - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 6200 PCI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
NV44 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
280 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
75 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
1.120
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
3.2 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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