NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 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 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1425MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

3808 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +18133%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

4

3840

Shading Units

32

120

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

276 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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