GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 8300 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce 8300 GS
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce 8300 GS
118
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 8300 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
14.688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
8
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
3.672
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
6.4 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)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A