NVIDIA B100 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 96GB VRAM B100 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA B100 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1837MHz
More VRAM (96GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (4.10TB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
16864 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 1000W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
B100
+66652%
62.08 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2024
Release Date
Apr 2007
Server Blackwell
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1665 MHz
Base Clock
-
1837 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
96GB
Memory Size
256MB
HBM3e
Memory Type
GDDR3
4096bit
Memory Bus
128bit
4.10TB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
132
SM Count
4
16896
Shading Units
32
528
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
8
528
Tensor Cores
-
-
-
-
256 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
50 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
44.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
969.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
248.3 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
62.08 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
31.04 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
1000W
TDP
60W
1400 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GB102
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Blackwell
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
104 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
Unknown
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
10.1
CUDA
1.1
N/A
Shader Model
4.0
