NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

21744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +288584%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

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

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

2

21760

Shading Units

16

680

TMUs

8

192

ROPs

8

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

88 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

47W

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

G84

GB202-400-A1

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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