GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce FX 5700 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce FX 5700
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce FX 5700
41
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce FX 5700
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G84
NV36
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
425 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
82 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
1.700
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
16 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)
9.0a
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A