GeForce RTX 5050 vs GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2544 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5050
+33847%
12900
GeForce 8600 GS
38
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
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
20
SM Count
2
2560
Shading Units
16
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
8
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
32 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
201.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
12.90 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.90 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
201.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
130W
TDP
47W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GB207
GPU Name
G84
GB207-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 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
1.4
Vulkan
N/A
10.1
CUDA
1.1
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
