GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 7600 GT AGP - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 7600 GT AGP
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
G73
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
560 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
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
6.720
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
22.4 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