NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs Intel Arc B580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Intel Arc B580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 12GB VRAM Arc B580 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 190W)

Intel Arc B580 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2670MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Arc B580 +35873%

13.67 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Arc B580

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Dec 2024

GeForce 8

Generation

Battlemage(Arc 5)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2670 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2670 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

2375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

456.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

2560

8

TMUs

160

8

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

20

-

L1 Cache

256 KB (per EU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

18 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

213.6 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

427.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.34 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.67 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1.709 TFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

190W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

BMG-G21

-

GPU Variant

SRPMF

Tesla

Architecture

Xe2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

5 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

19.6 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

272 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

1.4

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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