NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +9440%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

32

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

G84

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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