NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

5856 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +31244%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

-

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

4

5888

Shading Units

32

184

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

36 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

G84

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

80 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

1.1

6.8

Shader Model

4.0

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