NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA A30 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +10996%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Apr 2007

Tesla Ampere

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

128MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

128bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

4

3584

Shading Units

32

224

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

8

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

1.1

N/A

Shader Model

4.0

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