NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 200W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
5856 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+31244%
29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1920 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
46
32
Shading Units
5888
16
TMUs
184
8
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
36 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
200W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
AD104
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
294 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
8.9
4.0
Shader Model
6.8
