GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce 7600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs GeForce 7600 GS
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce 7600 GS
162
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 7600 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
G73
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
177 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
27 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
4.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
12.8 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