NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE

Description

This is a comprehensive analysis comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT on one side and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE on the other side.

The first video card was released on Apr 17th, 2007. This GPU is equipped with 0.5 GB of GDDR3 memory, with a bandwidth of 22.40 GB/s. The architecture of this card: base clock of and a boost clock of , TDP of this video card is 47 W.

The second video card was released on Sep 1st, 2004 and comes with 0.125 GB of DDR memory, with a bandwidth of 6.400 GB/s. This GPU also has a base clock of and a boost clock of , and it has a TDP of unknown.

This table also comprises board specifications, pixel and texture filtration, launch price, and benchmarks such as G3DMark, PassMark G2D, 3DMark Firestrike, FPS, and Hashrate.

Key Differences

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT:

  • NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT is newer: launch date is Apr 17th, 2007.
  • Passmark G3DMark is 71.55%: higher: 116 vs 33.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE:

  • Up to 185.71% higher bandwidth: 6.400 GB/s vs 22.40 GB/s.
  • More memory size (RAM): 0.125 GB vs 0.5 GB.
  • Passmark PassMark G2D is 265.91%: higher: 161 vs 44.

Technical specifications

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
Graphics Processor
GPU Name: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
GPU Variant: G84-303-A2 -
Processor: Tesla Rankine
Foundry: TSMC TSMC
Technology: 80 nm 130 nm
Transistors: 289 million 82 million
Die Size: 169 mm² 133 mm²
General information
Release Date: Apr 17th, 2007 Sep 1st, 2004
Availability: - -
Generation: GeForce 8 (8600) GeForce FX (5700)
Predecessor: GeForce 7 PCIe GeForce 4 Ti
Successor: GeForce 9 GeForce 6 AGP
Production: End-of-life End-of-life
Launch Price: 159 USD -
Current Price: - -
Bus Interface: PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Reviews: 183 in our database 6 in our database
Clock Speeds
Base Clock Speed: - -
Boost Clock Speed: - -
SOC clock: - -
UVD clock: - -
Memory Clock: 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective 200 MHz 400 Mbps effective
Memory specs
RAM: 0.5 GB 0.125 GB
Type of memory: GDDR3 DDR
Memory Bus: 128 bit 128 bit
Memory Bandwidth: 22.40 GB/s 6.400 GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units: 32 -
TMUs: 16 4
ROPs: 8 4
Compute units: - -
Tensor Cores: - -
RT Cores: - -
L0 Cache: - -
L1 Cache: - -
L2 Cache: 32 KB -
L3 Cache: - -
Board specs
Slot Width: Single-slot Single-slot
Length: 170 mm 6.7 inches -
Width: - -
Height: - -
TDP: 47 W unknown
Suggested PSU: 200 W 200 W
Outputs: 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power Connectors: None None
Part Number: - -
Board Number: P402, P403 -
Technology Support
DirectX: 11.1 (10_0) 9.0a
OpenGL: 3.3 1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL: - -
Vulkan: - -
CUDA: - -
Shader Model: - 2.0a

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Fillrate:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
4.32 GPixel/s
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
1 GPixel/s
Texture Fillrate:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
8.64 GTexel/s
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float):
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
76.16 GFLOPS
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
Texture Mapping Units:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
No data
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
4
Render Output Units:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
No data
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
4
Pixel Shaders:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
No data
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
4
Vertex Shaders:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
No data
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
3

Benchmarks Performance Tests

Passmark (G3D):
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
116
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
33
PassMark (G2D):
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
44
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE
161

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