NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs Intel Arc B580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM Arc B580 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 190W)
Intel Arc B580 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2670MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
2528 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Arc B580
+14598%
13.67 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Dec 2024
GeForce 8
Generation
Battlemage
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2670 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2670 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
2375 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
456.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2560
16
TMUs
160
8
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
20
-
L1 Cache
256 KB (per EU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
18 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
213.6 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
427.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.34 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.67 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1.709 TFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
190W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
BMG-G21
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
SRPMF
Tesla
Architecture
Xe2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
19.6 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
272 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
1.4
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
