NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A310
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Arc A310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A310 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1750MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Arc A310
+2790%
2.688 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 8
Generation
Alchemist
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1750 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
1937 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
124.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
Tensor Cores
96
-
RT Cores
6
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.00 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
56.00 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.376 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
672.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
30W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
DG2-128
G84-400-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
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
