Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
3040 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A580
+16071%
12.29 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT
0.076 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2023
Release Date
Apr 2007
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1700 MHz
Base Clock
-
2000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
3072
Shading Units
32
192
TMUs
16
96
ROPs
8
384
Tensor Cores
-
24
RT Cores
-
-
-
-
8 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
192.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.640 GTexel/s
24.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
76.16 GFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
175W
TDP
47W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
G84
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
80 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
406 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
