Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce 8600 GTS

Place in the ranking	1251	203
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01	no data
Power efficiency	0.47	53.95
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	G84	AD107
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	32	2048
Core clock speed	675 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	289 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.80	129.6
Floating-point processing power	0.0928 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	32
TMUs	16	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	198 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	4 GB
Standard memory config per GPU	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	32 GB/s	128.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	4.0	6.8
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	1.1	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.41	27.33
Recency	17 April 2007	26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	4 GB
Chip lithography	80 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has a 6565.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 16 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 1500% more advanced lithography process, and 71.4% lower power consumption.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 8600 GTS in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 8600 GTS is a desktop card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.