NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

5872 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +76610%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

-

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

2

5888

Shading Units

16

184

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

8

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

36 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

G84

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

80 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

294 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

8.9

CUDA

1.1

6.8

Shader Model

4.0

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