NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS videocard review

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

38695

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1305

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	1348
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