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#903 - Zotac 8600GTS Video Card |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Tuesday, 01 January 2008 |
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Introduction:
Zotac is not a well known brand around these parts and it hasn’t been until recently(this last year as far as I can tell) that you have started seeing their products even available at North American E-tailers. The Zotac website does not feature much about them specifically as seen below:
ZOTAC International is one of the largest producers Worldwide of Nvidia VGA and motherboard solutions. As part of the PC Partner Ltd group, we are able to draw upon over 10 years of quality manufacturing experience, producing some of the most technically advanced products available in the World today. Our philosophy is deliver quality leading edge products, at competitive prices, to our customers.
Today Geeks.com has provided us one of Zotac’s video cards for review. The Zotac 8600GTS video card is based off of the current 8*** generation of GPUs from nVidia. This generation of cards use the 80nm G84 die featuring 289m transistors. Essentially the G84 is a lean and trim G80 core.
| | GeForce 8600 GTS | GeForce 8600 GT |
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| Stream Processors | 32 | 32 | |
Core Clock (MHz) | 675 | 540 | |
Shader Clock (MHz) | 1450 | 1180 | |
Memory Clock (MHz) | 1000 | 700 | |
Memory Amount | 256MB GDDR3 | 256MB GDDR3 | |
Memory Interface | 128-bit | 128-bit | |
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) | 32 | 22.4 | |
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) | 10.8 | 8.6 |
Here are some specs from the nVidia website comparing the difference between the GTS and GT versions of the 8600 series cards:
As you can see the GTS is a clear step up in regards to pure MHz and for only a $40 difference at the writing of this review, is well worth the additional performance. Below are some addition specs on this specific sample from Zotac’s website:
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- Nvidia Geforce 8600GTS at 675 MHz core clock
- 400 MHz RamDAC Technology Max. Resolution at 2560 x 1600
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Onboard 256MB GDDR3
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2 GHz memory clock
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128-bit memory bus width
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Bus Support
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PCI Express x 16 support
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PureVideo HD
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HDTV Ready
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Vista Ready
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SLI Ready
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Dual Link Dual DVI
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RoHS Compliant
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| 3D Acceleration | External Connectors |
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Unified Shader Model 4.0
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Microsoft DX10 support
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Dual DVI-I Connectors
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TV-Out (S-video) Connector
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DVI to HDMI Adaptor
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