NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

4832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +21215%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Dec 2020

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

38

32

Shading Units

4864

16

TMUs

152

8

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA104

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-200-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.6

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