NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA PG506 242

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 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 PG506 242 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242 +10996%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Sep 2007

Tesla

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

3072bit

Memory Bus

128bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

4

3584

Shading Units

32

224

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

8

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

1.1

N/A

Shader Model

4.0

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