L20 vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM L20 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
L20 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
11744 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
L20
+63717%
59350
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
Graphics Card
Nov 2023
Release Date
Apr 2007
Tesla Ada
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
864.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
92
SM Count
4
11776
Shading Units
32
368
TMUs
16
128
ROPs
8
368
Tensor Cores
-
92
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
96 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
322.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
927.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
59.35 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
59.35 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
927.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
275W
TDP
60W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
G84
AD102
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
609 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
8.9
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
