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The Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS
The Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS looks deceptively like a GeForce 7900/7600 card. It's a single-slot card of about the same size. The cooler shroud is decorated with the same stylized blade we saw on the box.
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Just like all of NVIDIA's mid-range cards, the Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS is devoid of any significant components at the back. But you can see the four screws used to hold the cooler in place.
Specifications
Here are the specifications of the Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS.
Manufacturing Process |
• 0.08 Micron |
Transistor Count |
• 289 Million |
DirectX Support |
• 10 |
Interface |
• PCI Express X16 |
Stream Processors |
• 32 |
Vertex Shader Version |
• 4.0 |
Pixel Shader Version |
• 4.0 |
Textures Per Clock |
• 16 |
ROPs |
• 8 |
Core Clock Speed |
• 675 MHz |
Shader Clock Speed |
• 1450 MHz |
Fill Rate |
• 10800 MTexels/s |
Memory Bus Width |
• 128-bits |
Memory Size |
• 256 MB |
Memory Type |
• GDDR3 |
Memory Speed |
• 1 GHz (2 GHz DDR) |
Memory Bandwidth |
• 32 GB/s |
DVI Support |
• Two dual-linked DVI, both integrated into the GPU |
Now, let's take a closer look at the card.
