GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce 7950 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs GeForce 7950 GT
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce 7950 GT
354
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 7950 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G84
G71
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
August 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
13.20
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 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