NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 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 GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
2528 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+9440%
8.873 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1376 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
352.3GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
4
2560
Shading Units
32
160
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
180W
TDP
60W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
G84
GP104-410-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-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
