GeForce 8600 GTS and RTX A400 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GTS
RTX A400
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2024
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1762 MHz
Core clock speed
675 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
8,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
768
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
42.29
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
96 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
1.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3