Intel Arc A780 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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Intel Arc A780 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arc A780 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 A780 's Advantages

Boost Clock2200MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (559.6GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

4064 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A780 +19276%

18.02 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Arc A780

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GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2007

Alchemist

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

1008 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

559.6GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

32

256

TMUs

16

128

ROPs

8

512

Tensor Cores

-

32

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

16 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

281.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

563.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

36.04 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

18.02 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

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI

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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