Chaintech GSE86GTS-A1 (GF 8600GTS) Review Intro 1
Bluetooth 17 Apr 2007

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Introduction

Today, we take a look at their new product, the Chaintech GSE86GTS-A1 based on the GeForce 8600 GTS GPU.

Based on the 80nm-based G84 display core, this graphics card goes for the mid range price/performance based users who wishes to take advantage of DX10 for future games and the new video processing engine to offload video playback of HD contents with PureVideo HD. It is designed on full floating point Stream Processor units and fully compatible with DirectX 10.0 and Shader Model 4.0 standards. It has four 1.0ns GDDR3 display memories with each of 16Mb*32Bit, the display memory specification is 256MB/128Bit, factory overclocked to 743/1100 which is higher than the SPECed 675/1000.

The GPU is manufactured using 80nm processor technology. It has 32 Stream processors and the 8500GT has 16 Stream processors. The 8600GTS draws a maximum power of 71W, 8600GT at 43W and 8500GT at 40W. The memory width of the 8600GT and 8600GTS is 128bits wide.

The number of transistors on 8600GTS and 8600GT is 289 million while the 8500GT has 210 million transistors. Shader clk of the 8600GTS is 1450MHz, 8600GT is 1180MHz and 8500GT is 900MHz.

The design is based on DX10 unified shader architecture supporting 128Bit full floating point HDR+FSAA and up to 16x full-screen anti-aliasing mode, SLI technology and HDCP digital copyright protection ready.

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