GeForce 8600 GTS and NVS 300 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVS 300
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
NVS 300
125
GeForce 8600 GTS
NVS 300
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G84
GT218
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
April 2007
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
520 MHz
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
39.36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
16
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
18 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
4.160
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1580 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
12.64 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A