NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G72 G84
Architecture Curie Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 112 million 289 million
Die size 81 mm² 169 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 22nd, 2006 Apr 17th, 2007
Generation GeForce 7 PCIe GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 6 PCIe GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 8 GeForce 9
Reviews 183 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 475 MHz 540 MHz
Memory clock 405 MHz 810 Mbps effective 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1190 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 64 MB 512 MB
Memory type DDR2 DDR2
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 6.480 GB/s 12.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 8
Vertex shaders 5
TMUs 8 8
ROPs 4 8
Shading units 16
SM count 2
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 1.900 GPixel/s 4.320 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 593.8 MVertices/s
Texture rate 3.800 GTexel/s 4.320 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 38.08 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown 47 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number P381 P403

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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