NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile

Table of Contents

Graphics Processor

GPU model G84 TU106
GPU variant NB8P-GS N19E-Q1-KA-K1
Architecture Tesla Turing
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 12 nm
Number of transistors 289 million 10,800 million
Die size 169 mm² 445 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Oct 5th, 2007 May 27th, 2019
Generation GeForce 8M (8000M) Quadro Mobile (Tx000)
Production End-of-life Active
Interface MXM-II PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce Go 7
Successor GeForce 9M

Clocks

GPU clock 470 MHz
Shader clock 940 MHz
Memory clock 635 MHz 1270 Mbps effective 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective
Base clock 945 MHz
Boost clock 1380 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 6 GB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR6
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 20.32 GB/s 336.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 32 1920
TMUs 16 120
ROPs 8 64
SM count 4 30
Cache L2 32 KB 3 MB
Tensor cores 240
RT cores 30
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)

Performance

Pixel rate 3.760 GPixel/s 88.32 GPixel/s
Texture rate 7.520 GTexel/s 165.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 60.16 GFLOPS 5.299 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) performance 10.60 TFLOPS (2:1)
FP64 (double) performance 165.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module IGP
TDP 20 W 80 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Power connectors None

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2
CUDA 1.1 7.5
Shader model 4.0 6.6

Other Features

Compare

Sysrqmts browser extension icon
Stop overpaying for PC games!
See cheapest prices in Steam store with our browser extension.