Intel Arc A780 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arc A780 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A780 's Advantages
Boost Clock2200MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (559.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
4080 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A780
+47321%
18.02 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GS
0.038 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Apr 2007
Alchemist(Arc 7)
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2200 MHz
Base Clock
-
2200 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1093 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
559.6GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
4096
Shading Units
16
256
TMUs
8
128
ROPs
8
512
Tensor Cores
-
32
RT Cores
-
-
-
-
16 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
281.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
563.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
36.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
18.02 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
47W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
G84
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
-
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
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
