NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1695MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

8160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q +36439%

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

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RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1170 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

64

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

8192

16

TMUs

256

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

47W

TDP

230W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

6.7

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