
GeForce 8600 GTS and FirePro V3900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs FirePro V3900
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
FirePro V3900
660
GeForce 8600 GTS
FirePro V3900
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G84
Turks
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
April 2007
February 2012
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
480
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
199 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
15.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
28 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count
-
1
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HD сomponent video output
-
1
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A