NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 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 RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
2528 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
+9682%
9.098 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1552 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
4
2560
Shading Units
32
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
142.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
9.098 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.098 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
142.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
130W
TDP
60W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
G84
GA106-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
80 nm
12 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
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
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
