Tahiti and GeForce 8600 GS - video card comparison

Tahiti

GeForce 8600 GS

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Tahiti

G84

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

April 2007

Interface

-

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

-

540 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

38.08 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

289 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

16

Power consumption (TDP)

-

47 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

4.320

Memory type

-

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

-

512 MB

Memory bus width

-

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

12.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

-

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (11_1)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

4.0

Vulkan

1.2.170

N/A