NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

8176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 12Q +72978%

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Apr 2007

Quadro Ampere

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1170 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

64

SM Count

2

8192

Shading Units

16

256

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

8

256

Tensor Cores

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

162.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

27.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

27.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

433.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

230W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G84

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

628 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

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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