NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 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 184W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +18797%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1470 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

34

16

Shading Units

2176

8

TMUs

136

8

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

184W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

TU106

-

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

7.5

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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