NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs 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
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
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
