NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

10720 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +58168%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

973.8GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

84

32

Shading Units

10752

16

TMUs

336

8

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

350W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GB203

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GB203-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

0

0.289 billion

Transistors

Unknown

169 mm²

Die Size

377 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

10.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.8

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