NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1470MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +7183%

6.774 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

-

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

32

72

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

G84

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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