NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation 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 RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2550MHz
More VRAM (32GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
12768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 5000 Ada Generation
+70093%
65.28 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2023
Release Date
Sep 2007
Quadro Ada
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1155 MHz
Base Clock
-
2550 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
32GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
576.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
100
SM Count
4
12800
Shading Units
32
400
TMUs
16
176
ROPs
8
400
Tensor Cores
-
100
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
72 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
448.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
1020 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
65.28 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
65.28 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
1020 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
75W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
G84
AD102
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
609 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
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
