NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Max Q 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1035MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

5856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Max Q +20216%

12.19 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

510 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1035 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

5888

16

TMUs

184

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.36 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

190.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.19 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.19 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

190.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA104

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

20W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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