NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 184W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +18797%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

34

SM Count

2

2176

Shading Units

16

136

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

8

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

184W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

G84

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

80 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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