GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 7300 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce 7300 GT
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce 7300 GT
140
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 7300 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
G73
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
May 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
177 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
24 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
2.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
650 MBps
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
10.4 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
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A