NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS and NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP 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 7600 GS AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 35% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB

Launch date	17 April 2007 vs 1 July 2006
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP

Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 4.8 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 47 Watt

Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt vs 47 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	92
PassMark - G2D Mark	100

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G84	G73
Launch date	17 April 2007	1 July 2006
Place in performance rating	1376	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	16
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s	4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt	27 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	177 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	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
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	23.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3