GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce FX 5900 XT - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce FX 5900 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G84
NV35
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
May 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
3.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
22.4 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)
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