NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

8944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +80531%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1260 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

70

16

Shading Units

8960

8

TMUs

280

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

350W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

628 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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