GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Advantages
Released 15 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
4848 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GS Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+42531%
16200
GeForce 8600 GS
38
Graphics Card
Oct 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
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
2
4864
Shading Units
16
152
TMUs
8
80
ROPs
8
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
47W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
G84
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
80 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
392 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
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
