GeForce 8600 GTS and FireGL V8600 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
FireGL V8600
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G84
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
April 2007
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
688 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
320
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
159 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
11.01
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1736 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
111.1 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A