GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1708MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
1120 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+4131%
3935
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
9
SM Count
4
1152
Shading Units
32
72
TMUs
16
48
ROPs
8
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
60W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
G84
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
200 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
