NVIDIA RTX A400 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A400 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages
Released 17 years late
Boost Clock1762MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A400
+2809%
2.706 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2024
Release Date
Apr 2007
Quadro Ampere(Ax000)
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1417 MHz
Base Clock
-
1762 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
6
SM Count
4
768
Shading Units
32
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
24
Tensor Cores
-
6
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
28.19 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
42.29 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
2.706 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.706 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
42.29 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
60W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
80 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.1
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
