NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

5856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +21738%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

5888

16

TMUs

184

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA104

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-300-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

Board Design

60W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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