GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 7600 LE - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 7600 LE
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
G73
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
400 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
-
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
3.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
12.8 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