NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 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 250W)
NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2550MHz
More VRAM (32GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
12768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+70093%
65.28 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
1155 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2550 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
576.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
100
32
Shading Units
12800
16
TMUs
400
8
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
400
-
RT Cores
100
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
72 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
448.8 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1020 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
65.28 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
65.28 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1020 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
250W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
AD102
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
AD102
Tesla
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
609 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
