NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 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 1070 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1888 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +8403%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

4

1920

Shading Units

32

120

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

G84

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

314 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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