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GeForce 8600 GTS

GeForce 8600 GTS
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Effective Speed Effective 3D Speed -7,385%Average Score Lighting -9,906%, Reflection -5,762%, MRender -5,424%, Gravity -11,594%Overclocked Score Lighting -9,101%, Reflection -4,105%, MRender -4,502%, Gravity -10,347%Value & Sentiment User Rating -90%, Market Share -∞%Nice To Haves Parallax -23,853%, Splatting -3,333%, Parallax -25,929%, Splatting -3,996%, Age -356%

Average Bench: 2.25% (530^th of 714)

Based on 2,598 user benchmarks. Device: 10DE 0400 Model: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Poor: 2%Average: 2.25% Great: 3%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS averaged 97.7% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 2.42fps

Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 3.6fps

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Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS is just 0.98%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 4.01fps

Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 0.98fps

Average Bench

(Based on 2,598 samples)

Rank 5302.25%

Min	Avg	Max
1.8	Lighting 2.42	2.9
0.3	Reflection 4.01	7.2
0.6	Parallax 0.98	1.2
1.97% 2.47 fps

Min	Avg	Max
2.46	MRender 4.93	6.33
0.6	Gravity 1.76	2.1
1.64	Splatting 3.6	4.57
2.8% 3.43 fps

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The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

GBR-User, 19 months ago.GeForce 8600 GTS

Nvidia(10DE 0438) 256MB

Ram: 256MB, Driver: 341.74

2.22% Terrible

Lighting 2.3

Reflection 0.8

Parallax 1.1

2% 1.4 fps

MRender 5.4

Gravity 1.9

Splatting 3.5

3% 3.6 fps

GBR-User, 19 months ago.GeForce 8600 GTS

Nvidia(10DE 0438) 256MB

Ram: 256MB, Driver: 341.74

2.17% Terrible

Lighting 2.4

Reflection 0.8

Parallax 1.1

2% 1.43 fps

MRender 5.4

Gravity 0.6

Splatting 3.5

3% 3.17 fps

GBR-User, 19 months ago.GeForce 8600 GTS

Nvidia(10DE 0438) 256MB

Ram: 256MB, Driver: 341.74

2.12% Terrible

Lighting 2.1

Reflection 1.2

Parallax 0.7

2% 1.33 fps

MRender 5.5

Gravity 1.9

Splatting 3.5

3% 3.63 fps

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Hardware Id	Samples	Bench ± SD
Device(0000 0000)	16%	2% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8241)	14%	2% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0438)	13%	2% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3448)	11%	2% ± 0%
MSI(1462 0891)	7%	2% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 C761)	6%	2% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0401)	6%	2% ± 0%
XFX(1682 2280)	6%	2% ± 0%
MSI(1462 0950)	5%	2% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 C773)	3%	2% ± 0%
Device(105B 0F18)	2%	2% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0480)	2%	2% ± 0%
MSI(1462 0892)	2%	2% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 C765)	1%	2% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 856E)	1%	2% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3444)	1%	2% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0801)	1%	2% ± 0%
Device(7377 0000)	1%	2% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 C768)	1%	2% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 C762)	1%	2% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 843E)	0%	2% ± 1%
Device(107D 20B7)	0%	3% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 2025)	0%	2% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 075E)	0%	2% ± 0%
Device(107D 2A86)	0%	2% ± 0%
Asus(1043 825B)	0%	2% ± 0%
PNY(196E 0438)	0%	2% ± 0%
Elitegroup(1019 1701)	0%	2% ± 1%
Device(107D 20B8)	0%	3% ± 0%
Device(105B 0F16)	0%	3% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8244)	0%	3% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1025)	0%	2% ± 0%
BFG(19F1 0642)	0%	2% ± 0%
Elitegroup(1019 1705)	0%	2% ± 0%

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Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	91x
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $161Bench 49%, 34,093 samples	34x
Core2 Quad Q9650Intel $170Bench 51%, 16,719 samples	24x

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GeForce 8600 GTSNvidiaBench 2%, 2,598 samples	1x

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A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	12x
840 Evo 120GBSamsung $85Bench 91%, 104,444 samples	9x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	8x

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4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	153x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	58x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	42x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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GeForce 8600 GTS

Average Bench: 2.25% (530th of 714)

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