NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1468MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1010
+708%
0.752 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Sep 2007
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1228 MHz
Base Clock
-
1468 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
4
256
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
23.49 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
751.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
31.32 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
30W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
G84
GP108-200-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
