NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample 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 780 Ti Engineering Sample 's Advantages
Boost Clock928MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
2848 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample
+5647%
5.345 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
875 MHz
Base Clock
-
928 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
2880
Shading Units
32
240
TMUs
16
48
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
222.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
5.345 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
222.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK180
GPU Name
G84
GK180-425-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2.175
Vulkan
N/A
3.5
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
