GeForce 8600 GT vs 7900 GTO

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1310
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.47
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG71G84
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 October 2006 (18 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$159

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data32
Core clock speed650 MHz540 MHz
Number of transistors278 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)81 Watt47 Watt
Texture fill rate15.608.640
Floating-point processing powerno data0.07616 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs2416

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data170 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone
SLI options-+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Standard memory config per GPUno data256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed660 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth42.24 GB/s22.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model3.04.0
OpenGL2.12.1
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2006 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 90 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 81 Watt 47 Watt

8600 GT has an age advantage of 6 months, a 12.5% more advanced lithography process, and 72.3% lower power consumption.

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