Can You GAME On A 11 Year Old Graphics Card? - The 8600 Gt Review , Bench Marking, and Evaluation

Today we take a look at the 8600 gt, focusing on the gaming benchmarks and its practicality in regards to gaming. Spoiler alert: this card is not powerful for modern day applications, as this card only sports 256mb of GDDR3 for gaming. I really cannot find any sue for thics card, in any regards, as most integrated graphics outperform this utterly terrible graphics card.

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Script: Hello everybody and today well be taking a look at the 11 year old 8600 gt released in 2007. This then $150 card had multiple variants under the tesla architecture with our passively cooled gigabyte card sporting 2 texture processors, 32 cuda cores at a 600 mhz base clock, and 256mb of GDDR3 clocked at 720 mhz on a 128 bit memory bus. The 8600 gt was released after the extremely successful 8800gtx, as a more budget orientated option. Luckily for us, both of these cards support directx 10, allowing us to run a variety of games.

Personally I've never experienced a passive gpu cooler yet, and yes it functioned, but let's just say I'm glad my 2080 has 3 fans.

First up for our benchmarking we have counter strike source ran on a 64 player server with all settings as high as possible. In this installment of the counter strike franchise we saw an fps in about the mid fifties for most of gameplay, but smoke grenades just destroyed our framerate, dropping it down to the lower thirties. Id say that lower to medium settings would be best to run this game with.

Next up we have just cause 2 which surprised me with a playable experience. This game was ran with a mixture of settings which saw an average fps in the mid to upper thirties. The minimum specs for this game cite a 8800, but this card is more then plenty to play it.

Half life 2 was next with the best framerate of any on this list, but also the most variance. Due to this constant fluctuation the average fps was roughly in the mid nineties, a smooth and enjoyable experience. I truly cannot stress enough how all over the place the fps was. I've never experienced this in any other game to such a degree.

Following half life 2 we have an even older title, quake 2. If this card could run any game, it'd be this, which it did splendidly. To my knowledge, a framerate cap was not in place, but the fps seemed locked at 60 fps, only rarely dipping below.

Next up is a more recent game, terraria, in which all settings were maxed out. Here we observe a similar fps to quake 2, with a consistent fps of 60. I did not dive into the more end-game settings or boss fights, but I predict a playable experience those as well, since the GPU usage never exceeded 40%, therefore meaning that this card could handle more load.

Finally, we have borderlands 2, with our worst experience here today. All setting were as low as possible, and a meager fps in the mid twenties and upper teens was observed. While not in combat as well, the fps was only slightly improved. One odd event I noticed was that when I paused the game, and returned a few minutes later, the fps was decreased into the lower teens, but the usage did not exceed 50%. In the recording, their is a specific instance in which this decrease occurs, and I have no explanation why this would happen. If you've any idea why, please comment below.

Overall, this old card is best suited for older games, not having aged well by any means. A budget card then, and a crappy card now, the 8600 gt receives a score of 3/10, as most games were playable, but any process even remotely demanding I simply cannot recommend this card for. For gods sake most modern integrated graphics outperform this card. Another note about this card is the extreme temperature of 107 degrees celcius achieved by this card while playing borderlands 2. I scoured some forums and it seems most cards did not ever reach this temperature. According to one forum the passively cooled gigabyte card was infamous for these temperatures, so in the odd instance of your seeking for a 8600gt, do not get the one I've shown you today.

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