GeForce 8600 GTS and New Zealand - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
New Zealand
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
G84
New Zealand
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
28 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
2048
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)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
1.1
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OpenCL
1.1
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.170