NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +5305%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

22

SM Count

4

1408

Shading Units

32

88

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

125W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

G84

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Turing

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

284 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

7.5

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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