NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2130MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
2784 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+12803%
12 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Feb 2024
GeForce 8
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1620 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2130 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
22
32
Shading Units
2816
16
TMUs
88
8
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
88
-
RT Cores
22
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
12 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.2 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
187.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.00 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.00 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
187.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
70W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
AD107
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
18.9 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
159 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
6.7
