NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile 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 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (507.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile +19319%

18.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 50 Mobile

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

507.2GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

28

32

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

282.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.06 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.06 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

282.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

115W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GB206

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GB206

Tesla

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

4 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

Unknown

169 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.8

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