GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce GT 1010 - video card comparison

GeForce 8600 GTS

GeForce GT 1010

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

G84

GP108

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1468 MHz

Core clock speed

675 MHz

Floating-point performance

92.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

289 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

256

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

30 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.8 billion/sec

23.49

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

40.1 GB/s

Standard memory config per GPU

256 MB

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

1.1

6.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2