NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A380
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM Arc A380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A380 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2050MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (186.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Arc A380
+4413%
4.198 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Jun 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
2050 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
1937 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
96bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
186.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1024
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
8
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.60 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
131.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.397 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.198 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1050 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
DG2-128
G84-400-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
