NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

8944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +80531%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Jan 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

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

2

8960

Shading Units

16

280

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

8

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

350W

TDP

47W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G84

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

628 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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