GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 6600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce 6600
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce 6600
89
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 6600
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
August 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
300 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
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
2.400
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
8 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