NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 Max Q 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 A2000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1207MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
2528 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A2000 Max Q
+10200%
6.18 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Oct 2007
Ampere-MW
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
682 MHz
Base Clock
-
1207 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
4
2560
Shading Units
32
80
TMUs
16
48
ROPs
8
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
57.94 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
96.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
6.180 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.180 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
96.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
95W
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
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
