NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1755MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +8595%

8.087 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

4

2304

Shading Units

32

72

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G84

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

276 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

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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