NVIDIA GeForce 7600 LE vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G73 G84
GPU variant G73-VZ-N-B1 G84-400-A2
Architecture Curie Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 177 million 289 million
Die size 125 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
Reviews 83 in our database 183 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 6 PCIe GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 8 GeForce 9
Launch price 199 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 400 MHz 675 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1450 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 32.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 3.200 GPixel/s 5.400 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 400.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 3.200 GTexel/s 10.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 92.80 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown 60 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Length 198 mm 7.8 inches
Board number P401

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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