NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A400
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM RTX A400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1762MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
RTX A400
+2809%
2.706 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Apr 2024
GeForce 8
Generation
Quadro Ampere(Ax000)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1417 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1762 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
6
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
16
-
Tensor Cores
24
-
RT Cores
6
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.19 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.29 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.706 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.706 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
42.29 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GA107
G84-400-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
6.8
