NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 60W)
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
A2
+4772%
4.531 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Nov 2021
GeForce 8
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1440 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
10
32
Shading Units
1280
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
60W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GA107
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
80 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
Unknown
169 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
