NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q 8 GB
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM RTX A2000 Max Q 8 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 95W)
NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1177MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
2528 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
RTX A2000 Max Q 8 GB
+9943%
6.026 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 8M
Generation
Ampere-MW
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1177 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
20
32
Shading Units
2560
16
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
48
-
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
56.50 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
94.16 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.026 TFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.026 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
94.16 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
95W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GA107
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
-
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
