Over 20 years of PC history
| Reference G84 Board | MSI GeForce 8600 GT DDR2 | |
|---|---|---|
| GPU type | G84 | G84 |
| Manufacturing process | 80 nm | 80 nm |
| Transistors | 289 million | 289 million |
| Die size | 169 mm2 | 169 mm2 |
| ROPs | 8 | 8 |
| TMUs | 16 | 16 |
| PS / VS | Unified Shaders | - / - | 32 | - / - | 32 |
| GPU clock | 675 MHz | 540 MHz (0.8×) |
| Pixel / texel fillrate | 5 400 MP/s ; 10 800 MT/s | 4 320 MP/s (0.8×) ; 8 640 MT/s (0.8×) |
| SP / DP gigaflops | 139 ; - | 114 (0.82×) ; - |
| DirectX / OpenGL | 10 ; 3.3 | 10 ; 3.3 |
| CUDA / OpenCL | 1.1 ; 1.1 | 1.1 ; 1.1 |
| Memory | 256 MB GDDR3 | 256 MB DDR2 |
| Memory | 2 000 MHz ; 128 bit | 800 MHz (400×) ; 128 bit |
| Bandwith | 32 000 MB/s | 12 800 MB/s (0.38×) |
| Interface | PCI-E x16 [4 096 MB/s] | PCI-E x16 [4 096 MB/s] |
| TDP | 75 W | - |
| Analog I/O ports | 1 × S-Video out, 2 × DVI-I | 1 × S-Video out, 1 × DVI-I |
| Digital I/O ports | 2 × DVI-I | 1 × DVI-I, 1 × HDMI |
| Independent screens | 2 | 2 |
| Introduce date | 2007 | 2007 |