NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 24GB VRAM RTX 4500 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 210W)
NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2580MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
7648 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
+42512%
39.63 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Aug 2023
GeForce 8
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2070 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2580 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
60
32
Shading Units
7680
16
TMUs
240
8
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
240
-
RT Cores
60
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
206.4 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
619.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
39.63 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.63 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
619.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
210W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
AD103
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
45.9 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
379 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
