GeForce 8600 GTS and NV42 - video card comparison

GeForce 8600 GTS

NV42

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

G84

NV42

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

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Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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SLI options

+

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Core clock speed

675 MHz

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Floating-point performance

92.8 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

289 million

198 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

32

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Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

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Texture fill rate

10.8 billion/sec

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

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Standard memory config per GPU

256 MB

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

1.1

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OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

2.0 (full) Shader Model4.03.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP1