NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

GeForce 8600 GS videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 17 April 2007. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G84.

Core clock speed - 540 MHz. Texture fill rate - 4.32 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 16. Floating-point performance - 38.08 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 289 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 47 Watt.

Memory type: DDR2. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 800 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 12.8 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38588
92
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
100
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 92
PassMark - G2D Mark 100

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Tesla
Code name G84
Launch date 17 April 2007
Place in performance rating 1354
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 540 MHz
Floating-point performance 38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm
Pipelines 16
Texture fill rate 4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 47 Watt
Transistor count 289 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz
Memory type DDR2