NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +13598%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

28

32

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

170W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA104

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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