NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 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 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

8928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +32846%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

8960

Shading Units

32

280

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

8

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G84

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

60W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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