NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 17 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (507.2GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile +19319%

18.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 50 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

507.2GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

4

3584

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

32 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

282.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

18.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

18.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

282.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

G84

GB206

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

80 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.289 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

1.1

6.8

Shader Model

4.0

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