NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +7926%

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

4

2304

Shading Units

32

144

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

G84

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

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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