NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock2175MHz
More VRAM (20GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
6112 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+35071%
26.73 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT
0.076 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2023
Release Date
Apr 2007
Workstation Ada
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
2175 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
20GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
160bit
Memory Bus
128bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
4
6144
Shading Units
32
192
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
139.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
417.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.640 GTexel/s
26.73 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
26.73 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
76.16 GFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
130W
TDP
47W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-303-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
