GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages
Released 15 years late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
16352 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+88695%
82580
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
93
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Sep 2007
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
-
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
128
SM Count
4
16384
Shading Units
32
512
TMUs
16
176
ROPs
8
512
Tensor Cores
-
128
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
72 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
450W
TDP
75W
850 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
G84
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
609 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
8.9
CUDA
1.1
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
