NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104 +6836%

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 TU104

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

1920

16

TMUs

120

8

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

TU104

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

TU104-150-KC-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

7.5

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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