NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe 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 300W)
NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
10720 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
A40 PCIe
+40136%
37.42 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2020
GeForce 8
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1305 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
84
32
Shading Units
10752
16
TMUs
336
8
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
300W
200 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GA102
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
80 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
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
