NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GT215 G84
GPU variant GT215-450-A2 G84-400-A2
Architecture Tesla 2.0 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 727 million 289 million
Die size 144 mm² 169 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 28th, 2011 Apr 17th, 2007
Generation GeForce 300 GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 200 GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 400 GeForce 9
Launch price 199 USD
Reviews 183 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 506 MHz 675 MHz
Shader clock 1012 MHz 1450 MHz
Memory clock 350 MHz 700 Mbps effective 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 5.600 GB/s 32.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 48 32
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 4 8
SM count 6 4
Cache L2 32 KB 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 2.024 GPixel/s 5.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 8.096 GTexel/s 10.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 97.15 GFLOPS 92.80 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches 198 mm 7.8 inches
TDP 33 W 60 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Board number P680 P401

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_1) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.2 1.1
Shader model 4.1 4.0

Other Features

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