GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
32
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
10.80
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
2016 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
32.26 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI
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