NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 GK107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107 +968%

0.812 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

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GeForce GT 1030 GK107

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.464 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

812.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

33.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK107

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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