GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 7800 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce 7800 GTX
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce 7800 GTX
299
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 7800 GTX
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
G70
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
June 2005
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
430 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
302 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
86 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
10.32
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 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