GeForce 8600 GT and Playstation 3 GPU 28nm - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Playstation 3 GPU 28nm
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
RSX-28nm
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
June 2013
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
302 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
21 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
13.20
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
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
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
N/A
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
ES 1.1
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A