Arc A380 vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc A380 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Arc A380 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2050MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (186.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A380
+4413%
4198
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
Graphics Card
Jun 2022
Release Date
Apr 2007
Alchemist(Arc 3)
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
2050 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1937 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
96bit
Memory Bus
128bit
186.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
1024
Shading Units
32
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
128
Tensor Cores
-
8
RT Cores
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
131.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
8.397 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.198 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
1050 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
60W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-128
GPU Name
G84
ACM-G11
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
80 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
157 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
-
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
