NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +13598%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G84

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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