NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 +2350%

1.862 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

5

SM Count

4

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

G84

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

132 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs Intel Arc Pro A40

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 7570 OEM

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA T600

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs ATI FirePro 2460 Multi View

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD FirePro W4000

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early