NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +11413%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

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GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

10

16

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GP104

-

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

6.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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