NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB 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 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1492MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

2528 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB +12631%

7.639 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1237 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1492 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

96bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

20

32

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.74 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

119.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.639 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.639 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

119.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA107

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

GN20-P0-R-K2

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

200 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

6.8

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