RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
4576 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+25933%
15620
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
60
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Oct 2007
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
-
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
36
SM Count
4
4608
Shading Units
32
144
TMUs
16
48
ROPs
8
144
Tensor Cores
-
36
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
32 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
81.36 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
244.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
15.62 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
15.62 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
244.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
115W
TDP
20W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
AD106
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
NB8P-GS
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
22.9 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
188 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
