GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G84
GF116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
July 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
783 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
451.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
144
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
18.79
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
1400 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
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A