NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +12965%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

-

1480 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

1

1280

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

71.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

59.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G86

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

127 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

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