NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 4.32 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 100 vs 53

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 April 2007 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	100 vs 53

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 143 vs 92

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	143 vs 92

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

143

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

100

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	92	143
PassMark - G2D Mark	100	53

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G84	NV43 A2
Launch date	17 April 2007	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	1376	1588
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$64.95
Price now		$64.95
Value for money (0-100)		2.05
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3