Intel Arc A580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A580 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A580 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

3040 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A580 +13115%

12.29 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Arc A580

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

Apr 2007

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

-

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

32

192

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

8

384

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

8 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

192.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

G84

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

80 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

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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