NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock990MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +6658%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB

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GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

622 MHz

Base Clock

-

990 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

4

2048

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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