NVIDIA NVS 300 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA NVS 300 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA NVS 300

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 300

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 3% better floating-point performance: 39.36 gflops vs 38.08 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 47 Watt
Around 98% higher memory clock speed: 1580 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 121 vs 92

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Floating-point performance	39.36 gflops vs 38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt vs 47 Watt
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	121 vs 92

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 520 MHz
Around 4% higher texture fill rate: 4.32 GTexel / s vs 4.16 GTexel / s
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 100 vs 39

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 520 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.32 GTexel / s vs 4.16 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	100 vs 39

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA NVS 300
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

121

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

100

Name	NVIDIA NVS 300	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	121	92
PassMark - G2D Mark	39	100
Geekbench - OpenCL	2471
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	996

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA NVS 300	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GT218	G84
Launch date	8 January 2011	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$109
Place in performance rating	1660	1376
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	520 MHz	540 MHz
Floating-point performance	39.36 gflops	38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	16	16
Texture fill rate	4.16 GTexel / s	4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	289 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DMS-59	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR2