NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1245MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

6112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +24981%

15.3 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

Graphics Card

May 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

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1245 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/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

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

119.5 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.30 TFLOPS

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.30 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

239.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

80W

-

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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