NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA A2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 60W)

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

A2 +11823%

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

16GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

10

16

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

60W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA107

-

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

Unknown

169 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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