NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G84 G96
GPU variant G84-400-A2 G96-259-A1
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC UMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 289 million 314 million
Die size 169 mm² 144 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 17th, 2007 Jul 29th, 2008
Generation GeForce 8 GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 199 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 183 in our database 22 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 7 PCIe GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 9 GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 675 MHz 550 MHz
Shader clock 1450 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective 504 MHz 1008 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 32.00 GB/s 16.13 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 5.400 GPixel/s 4.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 10.80 GTexel/s 8.800 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 92.80 GFLOPS 88.00 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 198 mm 7.8 inches
TDP 60 W 40 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number P401

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

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