NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

6384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +84794%

32.26 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

50

SM Count

2

6400

Shading Units

16

200

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

8

200

Tensor Cores

-

50

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

40 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

G84

GB205

GPU Variant

-

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

80 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.289 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

1.1

6.8

Shader Model

4.0

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