NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +21181%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1515 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

18

16

Shading Units

2304

8

TMUs

72

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

130W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

12 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

276 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

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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