NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

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

9696 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q +47083%

28.31 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

76

32

Shading Units

9728

16

TMUs

304

8

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

163.0 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

442.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

28.31 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.31 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

442.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

AD103

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

GN21-X11

Tesla

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

4 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

379 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

6.7

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