NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1290MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

5088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +21916%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

1290 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

32

160

TMUs

16

80

ROPs

8

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

206.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

13.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

206.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G84

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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