NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition videocard review

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 21 September 2007. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G84.

Core clock speed - 675 MHz. Texture fill rate - 10.8 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 32. Floating-point performance - 92.8 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 289 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 75 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 2016 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 32.3 GB / s.

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G84
Launch date	21 September 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated
Type	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	675 MHz
Floating-point performance	92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	289 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2016 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3