NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2130MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
2784 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 70W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+12803%
12 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2024
Release Date
Apr 2007
Quadro Ada
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1620 MHz
Base Clock
-
2130 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
22
SM Count
4
2816
Shading Units
32
88
TMUs
16
48
ROPs
8
88
Tensor Cores
-
22
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
12 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
102.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
187.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
12.00 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.00 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
187.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
70W
TDP
60W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD107
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
18.9 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
159 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
8.9
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
