NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

9696 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q +46309%

28.31 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

32

304

TMUs

16

112

ROPs

8

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

64 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

163.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

442.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

28.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

28.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

442.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

G84

GN21-X11

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

80 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

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

8.9

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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