GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce 9500 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs GeForce 9500 GS
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce 9500 GS
193
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 9500 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84
G96
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
32
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
8.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
16.13 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)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A