NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 35W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1230MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
4576 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q
+18800%
11.34 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jan 2023
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
735 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1230 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
36
32
Shading Units
4608
16
TMUs
144
8
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
144
-
RT Cores
36
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
11.34 TFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.34 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
177.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
AD106
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
GN21-X6
Tesla
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
22.9 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
188 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
8.9
4.0
Shader Model
6.8
