GeForce GT 8600
GeForce 8600 GT - reduced frequency characteristics of the GeForce 8600 GTS. Being a lower-speed version of the GeForce 8600 GTS, this card was accordingly positioned as a replacement for the GeForce 7900 GS.
Characteristics of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
| Name | 8600 GeForce GTS |
| Core | G84 |
| Process technology (µm) | 0.08 |
| Transistors (millions) | 289 |
| Core frequency | 675 |
| Memory operating frequency (DDR) | 1000 (2000) |
| Bus and memory type | GDDR3 128 Bit |
| Bandwidth (Gb/s) | 32 |
| Unified shader units | 32 |
| Unified shader unit frequency | 1450 |
| TMU on conveyor | 16 (allgo) |
| ROP | 8 |
| Textures per beat | 16 |
| Textures per pass | 16 |
| Shader Model | 4.0 |
| Fill Rate (Mpix/s) | 5400 |
| Fill Rate (Mtex/s) | 10800 |
| DirectX | 10.0 |
| Anti-Aliasing (Max) | SS & MS - 16x |
| Anisotropic Filtering (Max) | 16x |
| Memory Capacity | 256/512 |
| Interface | PCI-E |
| RAMDAC | 2 x 400 |