GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
10208 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+36566%
34100
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
Graphics Card
May 2021
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1365 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
912.4GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
80
SM Count
4
10240
Shading Units
32
320
TMUs
16
112
ROPs
8
320
Tensor Cores
-
80
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
186.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
532.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
34.10 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
34.10 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
532.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
350W
TDP
60W
750 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
G84
GA102-225-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
80 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
628 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
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
