NVIDIA · Tesla (derived from codename prefix) · 2007
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 8600 GS: 512 MB DDR2, 47 W, 16 CUDA cores. Launched April 17, 2007.
- Memory
- 512 MB
- Power
- 47 W
- Bus width
- 128 bit
Memory512 MB
52 of 290 in GeForce
Power47 W
93 of 243 by higher draw in GeForce
CUDA cores16
94 of 154 in GeForce
Current market
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Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 512 MB
- Memory type
- DDR2
- Bus width
- 128 bit
- Memory clock
- 400 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 12.8 GB/s
Compute
- CUDA cores
- 16
- SM count
- 2
- TMUs
- 8
- ROPs
- 8
- FP32
- 38.08 GFLOPS
- Pixel fill rate
- 4.32 GP/s
- Texture fill rate
- 4.32 GT/s
Clocks
- Base clock
- 540 MHz
Board
- TDP
- 47 W
- Bus interface
- PCIe 1.0 x16
- External power required
- No
- Form factor
- desktop
Physical
- Architecture
- Tesla (derived from codename prefix)
- Codename
- G84
- Process
- 80 nm
- Transistors
- 289 million
- Die size
- 169 mm²
- Series
- GeForce
- Launch date
- April 17, 2007
Not recorded by the source: generation, boost clock, fp64 and launch msrp.
Die figure
Silicon, made visible
Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.
Catalog context
Within its series, the GeForce 8600 GS ranks 40th of 50 for FP32 throughput and 52nd of 290 for memory capacity. Its 47 W TDP is within the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.
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