Intel Arc A310 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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Intel Arc A310 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A310 +2790%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Arc A310

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Sep 2007

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1750 MHz

Base Clock

-

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

124.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

96

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

5.376 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

G84

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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