Intel Arc Pro A40 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Intel Arc Pro A40

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A40 +3644%

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

Apr 2007

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8

RT Cores

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

54.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

108.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

6.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.482 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

870.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

G84

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

G84-303-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

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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