GeForce 8600 GTS: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce 8600 GTS provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.41% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 8600 GTS sales 17 April 2007 at a recommended price of $199. This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 80 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 198 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 60 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1296
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01
Power efficiency0.55of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG84
Market segmentDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores32of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed675 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors289 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology80 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)60 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate10.80of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power0.0928 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs8of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs16of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L2 Cache32 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8600 GTS 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
Length198 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin
SLI options+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8600 GTS: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Standard memory config per GPU256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1000 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth32 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8600 GTS. 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.1

Benchmark performance

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


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

8600 GTS
0.41

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

8600 GTS 183
Samples: 651

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 8600 GTS is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce 8600 GTS's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8600 GTS is Radeon HD 6230, which is slower by 2% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce 8600 GTS:

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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