NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +4604%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

160bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

40

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1280 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G84

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

47W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

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