3D Rage IIC PCI vs GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Apr 2007
Rage 2
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
83 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
512MB
SDR
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
2
-
Shading Units
16
1
TMUs
8
1
ROPs
8
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
G84
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
-
Rage 2
Architecture
Tesla
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
