GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
7043
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1740 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
8,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
90 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
111.4
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
1.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3