NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 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 RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

5088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +26266%

15.82 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Oct 2007

Quadro Ada-M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

40

SM Count

4

5120

Shading Units

32

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

48 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

98.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

247.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

15.82 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.82 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

247.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

80 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

294 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

8.9

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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