NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 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 1070 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1888 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070
+6849%
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2016
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
-
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
4
1920
Shading Units
32
120
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
47W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
G84
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
80 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
314 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
