NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 +1111%

1.127 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

-

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

3

SM Count

4

384

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

60W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

G84

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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