NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 +2030%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

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GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

G84

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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