NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +6908%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

-

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

4

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

80W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G84

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

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

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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