NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 3x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 540 MHz
  • 3x more texture fill rate: 13.0 billion / sec vs 4.32 GTexel / s
  • 6x more pipelines: 96 vs 16
  • 8.2x better floating-point performance: 311.04 gflops vs 38.08 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3) vs 800 MHz
  • 8.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 767 vs 92
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 230 vs 100
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 February 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed 1620 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate 13.0 billion / sec vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines 96 vs 16
Floating-point performance 311.04 gflops vs 38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3) vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 767 vs 92
PassMark - G2D Mark 230 vs 100

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

  • Around 38% lower typical power consumption: 47 Watt vs 65 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 47 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
767
92
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
230
100
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 767 92
PassMark - G2D Mark 230 100
Geekbench - OpenCL 2621
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 6.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 171.053
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.65
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 9.729
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.871
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3275
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3275

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Tesla
Code name GF108 G84
Launch date 1 February 2011 17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $79
Place in performance rating 1351 1354
Price now $69.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 14.03

Technical info

Core clock speed 1620 MHz 540 MHz
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 311.04 gflops 38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 98 °C
Pipelines 96 16
Texture fill rate 13.0 billion / sec 4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 47 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 289 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, HDMIVGADual Link DVI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 (DDR3) – 51.2 (GDDR5) 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3) 800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR2
Standard memory config per GPU 1 GB GDDR5 or 2 GB

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA