GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2021
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
199.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
360.0 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
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3