GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 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
GeForce GT 1030 Advantages
Released 10 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1468MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030
+1111%
1127
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
93
Graphics Card
May 2017
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1228 MHz
Base Clock
-
1468 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
4
384
Shading Units
32
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
23.49 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
35.23 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
17.62 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1127 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
35.23 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
30W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
G84
GP108-300-A1
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
