NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT
0.076 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+1293%
1.059 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Mar 2018
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1152 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
22.40GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
3
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.320 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
8.640 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
76.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
20W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GP108
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
6.1
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
