NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

8672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +39071%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

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

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

4

8704

Shading Units

32

272

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

8

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

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

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

320W

TDP

47W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G84

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon R7 350 640SP

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Engineering Sample

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

Related News

1

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

2

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

3

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

4

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

5

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

6

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

7

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

8

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

9

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

10

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption