NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 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 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1440MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +13478%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

224

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA100

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

165W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

N/A

3.3

OpenGL

N/A

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

8.0

4.0

Shader Model

N/A

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