NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

8160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +29760%

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1170 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

64

32

Shading Units

8192

16

TMUs

256

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

230W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA102

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

628 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

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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