GeForce GTX 460 OEM and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF104
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
650 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
873.6 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
32
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
36.40
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3400 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
108.8 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A