NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 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 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

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

2544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +33847%

12.9 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 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

20

16

Shading Units

2560

8

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

100W

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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GB207

-

GPU Variant

GB207

Tesla

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

0 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

Unknown

169 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

9.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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