GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8600 GTS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8800 GTX vs GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 8800 GTX
608
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce 8800 GTX
GeForce 8600 GTS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G80
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2006
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
576 MHz
675 MHz
CUDA cores
575
-
Floating-point performance
345.6 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
681 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
32
Power consumption (TDP)
155 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
36.8 billion/sec
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
768 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
32 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A