GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce GT 320 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GT 320 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G84
GT215
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
187.49 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
72
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
43 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
12.96
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1580 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
25.28 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A