NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

4832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +17319%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Dec 2020

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

38

32

Shading Units

4864

16

TMUs

152

8

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA104

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GA104-200-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

6.6

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