NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA A2

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

A2 +4772%

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA107

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

Unknown

169 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

60W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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