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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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
8.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 771 vs 92
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 226 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	771 vs 92
PassMark - G2D Mark	226 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

771

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

100

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	771	92
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	100
Geekbench - OpenCL	2620
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