NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 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 70W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +8813%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1042 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

18

32

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

72

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.04 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.774 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.774 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

105.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

70W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA107

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GA107-325-K2-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.7

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