GeForce GT 440 and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 440 vs GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GT 440
793
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce GT 440
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF108
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2011
April 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
810 MHz
540 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
311.04 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
32
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
47 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
13.0 billion/sec
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3)
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 (DDR3) – 51.2 (GDDR5)
22.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
1 GB GDDR5 or 2 GB
256 MB
Display Connectors
HDMIVGADual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A