GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GTX 470
3199
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF100
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2010
April 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
607 MHz
540 MHz
CUDA cores
448
-
Floating-point performance
1,088.6 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
448
32
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
47 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
34.0 billion/sec
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1280 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
320 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
133.9 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
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