NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 250W)
NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 14 years late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
A16 PCIe
+4565%
4.339 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 8
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
885 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
231.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
10
32
Shading Units
1280
16
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
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.24 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
67.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.339 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.339 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
135.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GA107
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
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
