NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock 1620MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +19544%

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410MHz

Base Clock

-

1620MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750MHz

Memory Clock

400MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80 GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

16

144

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

8

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4MB

L2 Cache

32KB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

G84

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

80 nm

10,800 million

Transistors

289 million

445mm²

Die Size

169mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

47W

450W

Suggested PSU

200W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

7.5

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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