NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

10720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5080 +71202%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

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

-

2400 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

973.8GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

4

10752

Shading Units

32

336

TMUs

16

128

ROPs

8

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

64 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

322.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

846.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

54.19 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

54.19 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

846.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

350W

TDP

47W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

G84

GB203-400-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

80 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.289 billion

377 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

10.1

CUDA

1.1

6.8

Shader Model

4.0

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