NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

6112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +31533%

18.98 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 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

1110 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

48

32

Shading Units

6144

16

TMUs

192

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

148.3 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

296.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.98 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.98 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

296.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GA104

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

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

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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