NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3824 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +33851%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

817 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

30

16

Shading Units

3840

8

TMUs

120

4

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GA106

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

12 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

276 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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