NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1468MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030
+1111%
1.127 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
May 2017
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1228 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1468 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
3
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.49 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
35.23 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
17.62 GFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1127 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
35.23 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
30W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GP108
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
GP108-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
6.1
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
