NVIDIA started GeForce 8600 GS sales 17 April 2007. This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 80 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 47 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 8600 GS: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	1367
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.35	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	G84
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 8600 GS's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8600 GS's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	540 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	289 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	47 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	4.320	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.03808 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	8	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	8	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8600 GS and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8600 GS: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8600 GS. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 8600 GS, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.0
OpenGL	3.3	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	1.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 8600 GS. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

8600 GS 0.24

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

8600 GS 91

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 8600 GS is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce 8600 GS's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.

Radeon X800 XT 104.17

Radeon X1600 PRO 104.17

Radeon HD 6250 100

GeForce 8600 GS 100

GeForce 6610 XL 95.83

Radeon X1300 PRO 91.67

Radeon X1650 PRO 91.67

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8600 GS is Radeon HD 6250, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.