NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 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 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +5656%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 2016

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

10

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GP106

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

6.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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