NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2512MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
6112 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+33093%
30.87 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
-
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
4
6144
Shading Units
32
192
TMUs
16
80
ROPs
8
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
47W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
G84
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
263 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.4
Vulkan
N/A
10.1
CUDA
1.1
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
