NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA A40 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

10720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A40 PCIe +40136%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Apr 2007

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1305 MHz

Base Clock

-

1740 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

695.8GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

4

10752

Shading Units

32

336

TMUs

16

112

ROPs

8

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

194.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

584.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

37.42 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.42 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

584.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

60W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

628 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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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