GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB vs GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 90W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
+7563%
7127
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
93
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Sep 2007
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1545 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
4
2048
Shading Units
32
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
55.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
111.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
7.127 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.127 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
111.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
90W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
G84
GA107-140-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
80 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
