NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1440MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
3552 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
A30 PCIe
+10996%
10.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 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
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM2e
128bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
32.26GB/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
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
10.80 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
75W
TDP
165W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GA100
G84-400-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
