NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 24GB VRAM A30 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 165W)

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +10996%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2e

128bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

56

32

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

224

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

165W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA100

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

N/A

3.3

OpenGL

N/A

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

8.0

4.0

Shader Model

N/A

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