GeForce 6150 SE + nForce 430 vs 8600 GTS

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	G84	C61
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)	11 October 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	no data

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 cores	32	no data
Core clock speed	675 MHz	425 MHz
Number of transistors	289 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	10.80	0.43
Floating-point processing power	0.0928 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	1
TMUs	16	1

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).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCI
Length	198 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data
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 type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	System Shared
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	32 GB/s	no data

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 Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	4.0	3.0
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	1.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 April 2007	11 October 2004
Chip lithography	80 nm	90 nm

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