GeForce 8600 GT: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 8600 GT sales 17 April 2007 at a recommended price of $159 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 80 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 22.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 170 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 47 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 8600 GT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G84 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 17 April 2007 (17 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $159 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 8600 GT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8600 GT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 540 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| 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 | 8.640 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.07616 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8600 GT 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 | |
| Length | 170 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | |
| SLI options | + |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8600 GT: 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 | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Standard memory config per GPU | 256 MB | |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 700 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 22.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8600 GT. 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 | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 8600 GT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 8600 GT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8600 GT is Radeon HD 8310E.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce 8600 GT according to our statistics.
