GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
January 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
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
13,250 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
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
1.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2