GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1380MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
224 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 60W)
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
+659%
706
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1380 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
4
256
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
16 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
22.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
706.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
29.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
60W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
G84
GP108-200-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
