NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
5856 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+31244%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
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
1000 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
4
5888
Shading Units
32
184
TMUs
16
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
5.400 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
60W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
G84
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
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
