NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

10464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +38158%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

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

1395 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

82

32

Shading Units

10496

16

TMUs

328

8

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

-

RT Cores

82

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

350W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA102

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

628 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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