NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation 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 130W)
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2175MHz
More VRAM (20GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
6112 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+28641%
26.73 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Aug 2023
GeForce 8
Generation
Workstation Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1500 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2175 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
160bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
48
32
Shading Units
6144
16
TMUs
192
8
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
139.2 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
417.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.73 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.73 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
130W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
AD104
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
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
