NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+4772%
4.531 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Apr 2007
Quadro
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
4
1280
Shading Units
32
40
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
60W
TDP
60W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
80 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.289 billion
Unknown
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
8.6
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
