NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 230W)
NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages
Released 14 years late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
8160 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
RTX A5000 8Q
+29760%
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 8
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1170 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
64
32
Shading Units
8192
16
TMUs
256
8
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
230W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
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
6.7
