NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 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 175W)
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
3040 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Arc A580
+13115%
12.29 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2023
GeForce 8
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
3072
16
TMUs
192
8
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
175W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
DG2-512
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Tesla
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
406 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
