NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce 305M and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GT218GPU NameG84
Tesla 2.0ArchitectureTesla
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size80 nm
260 millionTransistors289 million
57 mm²Die Size169 mm²

Graphics Card

Jan 10th, 2010Release DateApr 17th, 2007
GeForce 300MFamilyGeForce 8
(8600)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 200MPredecessorGeForce 7 PCIe
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

512 MBMemory Size512 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeDDR2
64 bitMemory Bus128 bit
11.20 GB/sBandwidth12.80 GB/s

Performance

2.100 GPixel/sPixel fillrate4.320 GPixel/s
4.200 GTexel/sTexture fillrate4.320 GTexel/s
36.80 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance38.08 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

700 MHz
1400 Mbps effective
Memory Clock400 MHz
800 Mbps effective
525 MHzGPU Clock540 MHz

Render Config

16Shading Units16
8TMUs8
4ROPs8
32 KBL2 Cache32 KB
2SM Count2

Board Design

14 WThermal design power (TDP)47 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video

API support

11.1 (10_1)DirectX11.1 (10_0)
3.3OpenGL3.3
1.1OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
4.1Shader Model4.0
1.2CUDA1.1