NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A350
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Arc A350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A350 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Arc A350
+3203%
3.072 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 8
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 3)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1937 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
124.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
24
-
Tensor Cores
96
-
RT Cores
6
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
48.00 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
96.00 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.144 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.072 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
768.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
25W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
DG2-128
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Tesla
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
157 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
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
