NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 8600 GS sales 17 April 2007. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 80 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 47 Watt.

We have no data on GeForce 8600 GS benchmark results.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce 8600 GS: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG84
Market segmentDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (16 years old)
Current price$6.66 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

GeForce 8600 GS's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8600 GS's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed540 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors289 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology80 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)47 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate4.320of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance38.08 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8600 GS and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8600 GS: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeDDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8600 GS. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API support

APIs supported by GeForce 8600 GS, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 8600 GS. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

8600 GS 91

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8600 GS is Radeon HD 8310E.

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