GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs GeForce RTX 3070
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce RTX 3070
23060
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce RTX 3070
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
September 2020
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1725 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
1500 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
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
317.4
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
448.0 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
8.5
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2