NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A1000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 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 50W)
NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages
Released 17 years late
Boost Clock1462MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
2272 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
RTX A1000
+7144%
6.737 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2024
GeForce 8
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
727 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1462 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
18
32
Shading Units
2304
16
TMUs
72
8
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
72
-
RT Cores
18
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.78 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
105.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.737 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.737 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
105.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
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
8.7 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
200 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
6.7
