NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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

Released 17 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

6112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +33201%

30.97 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

48

SM Count

4

6144

Shading Units

32

192

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

40 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

483.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

30.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.97 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

483.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

60W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

G84

GB205-300-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

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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