GeForce 8600 GTS and 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Voodoo Scalable
GPU code name
G84
VSA-101
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
-
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
166 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
180 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
14 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
0.33
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
16 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
332 MBps
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
2.656 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
6.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A