NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +7025%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1404 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

10

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GP106

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

200 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

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