NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +10727%

10.07 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

2944

Shading Units

32

184

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

G84

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Turing

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

80 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 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

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