GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 6800 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce 6800 XT
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce 6800 XT
127
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 6800 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
NV42
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2005
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
202 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
5.400
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1200 MBps
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
38.4 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
2.0 (full)
Shader Model4.03.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A