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GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 460

Intro

The GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) has a GPU core clock speed of 540 MHz, and the 256 MB of DDR2 memory runs at 400 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 32 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 460, which has a clock frequency of 675 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 336 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 24 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) 47 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 150 Watts
Difference: 103 Watts (219%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 86400 MB/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 73600 (575%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 will be much (approximately 338%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8600 GS (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 37800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) 8640 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 29160 (338%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 16200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) 4320 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 11880 (275%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8600 GS (OEM) GeForce GTX 460
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year April 2007 July 2010
Code Name G84 GF104
Memory 256 MB 768 MB
Core Speed 540 MHz 675 MHz
Memory Speed 800 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 47 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 12800 MB/sec 86400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8640 Mtexels/sec 37800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4320 Mpixels/sec 16200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 336
Texture Mapping Units 16 56
Render Output Units 8 24
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 80 nm 40 nm
Transistors 289 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8600 GS (OEM)

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