NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 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 RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1350MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

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

6112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 Max Q +27550%

16.59 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

RTX A5000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 8M

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

720 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/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

129.6 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.59 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.59 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

259.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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

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

6.7

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