NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

5856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +21738%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 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

-

46

SM Count

4

5888

Shading Units

32

184

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

8

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

60W

550 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

GA104

GPU Name

G84

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

392 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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