GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
G84
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
675 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
76.86
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
5.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126