GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 6600 GT AGP - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 6600 GT AGP
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
November 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
4.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
15.2 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