GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce 6150 SE + nForce 430 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 6150 SE + nForce 430
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
C61
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
October 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
425 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
0.43
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A