GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce 6600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs GeForce 6600 GT
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce 6600 GT
147
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 6600 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
August 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
4.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
16 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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