NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs Intel Arc A310

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Intel Arc A310

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 4GB VRAM Arc A310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Arc A310 +6973%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Arc A310

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 8

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1750 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

124.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

6

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.00 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.376 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

DG2-128

-

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

Tesla

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

6 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

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

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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