NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs Intel Arc Pro A40

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition Intel Arc Pro A40

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 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 50W)

Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A40 +3644%

3.482 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Arc Pro A40

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2022

GeForce 8

Generation

Alchemist

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

8

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.40 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.963 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.482 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

870.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

DG2-128

G84-303-A2

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

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

None

Power Connectors

None

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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