NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

21744 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +288584%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

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

1875 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

32GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

170

16

Shading Units

21760

8

TMUs

680

8

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

500W

200 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GB202

-

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

4 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

10.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.8

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