NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB +7563%

7.127 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1545 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

16

32

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

55.68 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

111.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.127 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.127 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

111.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

90W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA107

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GA107-140-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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