NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

NVIDIA A2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2 +11823%

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

A2

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Apr 2007

Quadro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

2

1280

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

G84

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.289 billion

Unknown

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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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