NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

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

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

-

Compute Units

-

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)

-

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

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 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Related News

1

Intel Delays Lunar Lake Shipment: Postponed from June to September

2

Initial Test Results of AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Revealed: IPC Improvement Meets Expectations

3

Elon Musk Responds to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: Humanoid Robots Will Be Ten Times More Common than Cars

4

AMD Revives Multi-GPU Support: Up to Four Cards and 192GB VRAM

5

TSMC Explores Advanced Chip Packaging Technology: Switches to Rectangular Substrate, Nearly Tripling Usable Area on 300mm Wafers

6

Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 SSD Launched: Up to 8TB Capacity with Mixed TLC/QLC Flash

7

Apple's Most Powerful Laptop is Coming: A Preview of the New MacBook Pro

8

AMD Breakthrough: Ryzen AI HX 370 Processor Benchmark Revealed with Aggressive Performance

9

Russian Cosplayer as Marika from 'Elden Ring': Stunning Figure in a High-Slit Gown

10

AMD Patents Multi-Chip Design GPU with Configurable Multi-Mode Capabilities