NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

10720 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +49136%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 8

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1305 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

84

32

Shading Units

10752

16

TMUs

336

8

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA102

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

628 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

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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