GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2544 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080
+23250%
8873
GeForce 8600 GS
38
Graphics Card
May 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
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.3GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
2
2560
Shading Units
16
160
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
8
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
180W
TDP
47W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
G84
GP104-400-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
80 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
314 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
