GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce 8600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 47W)
GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+1293%
1059
GeForce 8600 GT
76
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
4
384
Shading Units
32
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.640 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
76.16 GFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
G84
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
