NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 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 115W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q
+9313%
5.648 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jun 2017
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1215 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
16
32
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
88.26 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
88.26 GFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.648 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
176.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
115W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GP104
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
N17E-G2-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
16 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
314 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
