NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

3808 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +15190%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

4

3840

Shading Units

32

120

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G84

GA106-400-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

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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