GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce FX 5600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs GeForce FX 5600
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce FX 5600
12
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce FX 5600
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G84
NV31
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
325 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
80 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
37 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
1.300
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
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)
9.0a
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A