NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 7600 GT AGP and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 60W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 7 AGP
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
22.40GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
-
Shading Units
32
12
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
6.720 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
40W
TDP
60W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G73
GPU Name
G84
G73-VZ-N-B1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.177 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
125 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
