NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 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 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +13598%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

4

3584

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

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

GA106-302-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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