GeForce 8600 GTS: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce 8600 GTS provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.44% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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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 ranking | 1292 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.01 | |
| Power efficiency | 0.56 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G84 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 17 April 2007 (18 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
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 cores | 32 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 675 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 289 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 60 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 10.80 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0928 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 198 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 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 type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Standard memory config per GPU | 256 MB | |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 32 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
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 Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 8600 GTS, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
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.
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.
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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 2 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce 8600 GTS:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce 8600 GTS according to our statistics.
