NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs Intel Arc B570
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 10GB VRAM Arc B570 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 150W)
Intel Arc B570 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock2500MHz
More VRAM (10GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (380.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
2272 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Arc B570
+12287%
11.52 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Jan 2025
GeForce 8
Generation
Battlemage
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2500 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2500 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
2375 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
10GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
160bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
380.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2304
16
TMUs
144
8
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
144
-
RT Cores
18
-
L1 Cache
256 KB (per EU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
18 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
200.0 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.52 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1440 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
BMG-G21
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
SRPMG
Tesla
Architecture
Xe2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
19.6 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
272 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
1.4
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
