GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce2 MX 400 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce2 MX 400
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
G84
NV11 B2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
March 2001
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
200 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
180 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
20 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
0.8
Memory type
GDDR3
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
166 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
2.656 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
7.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A