NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1290MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
5088 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT
0.061 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q
+21555%
13.21 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
780 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1290 MHz
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
22.40GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
40
32
Shading Units
5120
16
TMUs
160
8
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
103.2 GPixel/s
7.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
206.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
13.21 TFLOPS
60.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.21 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
206.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GA104
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
GA104-770-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
80 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
