NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 115W vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac 256MB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 115W
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac 256MB
3840 Shaders
6GB GDDR6
1702MHz
32 Shaders
256MB GDDR3
470MHz
Peak AI Performance
418.28 TOPS
INT4 Tensor Sparse
Peak AI Performance
0.06 TOPS
INT32
FP32
13.07 TFLOPS
FP32
60 GFLOPS
FP16
13.07 TFLOPS
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Form Factor
Soldered
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Form Factor
Soldered
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TDP
115W
TDP
20W
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GB6 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB6 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB6 Metal N/A
0%
GB6 Metal N/A
0%
GB6 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB6 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB5 OpenCL 102,045
33%
GB5 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA 112,375
32%
GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 Metal N/A
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GB5 Metal N/A
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GB5 Vulkan 73,760
36%
GB5 Vulkan N/A
0%
OCT 2020.1 335
44%
OCT 2020.1 N/A
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OCT Metal N/A
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OCT Metal N/A
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Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Architecture
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Family
GeForce 30
Family
GeForce 8000
Codename
NV176
GA106
Variant
GN20-E3
Codename
NV84
G84
Variant
NB8P
Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
2/25/2021
Release Date
5/1/2007
Foundry
Samsung
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Foundry
TSMC
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Fabrication Node
8N
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Fabrication Node
80nm
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Die Size
276 mm²
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Die Size
169 mm²
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Transistor Count
13.3 Billion
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Transistor Count
289 Million
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Transistor Density
48.01M/mm²
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Transistor Density
1.71M/mm²
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Form
Soldered
Form
Soldered
Shading Units
3840 Shaders
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Shading Units
32 Shaders
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Texture Mapping Units
120 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
16 TMUs
Render Output Units
48 ROPs
Render Output Units
8 ROPs
Tensor Cores
120 T-Cores
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Ray-Tracing Cores
30 RT-Cores
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Streaming Multiprocessors
30 SMs
Streaming Multiprocessors
4 SMs
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Graphics Processing Clusters
3 GPCs
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1387MHz Base
1702MHz
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940MHz Shader
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470MHz
Peak AI Performance
418.28 TOPS
INT4 Tensor Sparse
Peak AI Performance
0.06 TOPS
INT32
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FP16
13.07 TFLOPS
52.29 TFLOPS Tensor (FP16 Accumulate)
104.57 TFLOPS Tensor (FP16 Accumulate) Sparse
26.14 TFLOPS Tensor (FP32 Accumulate)
52.29 TFLOPS Tensor (FP32 Accumulate) Sparse
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FP32
13.07 TFLOPS
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FP32
60 GFLOPS
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FP64
200 GFLOPS
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BF16
13.07 TFLOPS
26.14 TFLOPS Tensor
52.29 TFLOPS Tensor Sparse
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TF32
13.07 TFLOPS Tensor
26.14 TFLOPS Tensor Sparse
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INT4
209.14 TOPS Tensor
418.28 TOPS Tensor Sparse
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INT8
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104.57 TOPS Tensor
209.14 TOPS Tensor Sparse
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INT32
6.54 TOPS
INT32
0.06 TOPS
Ray Tracing
25.5 TOPS
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Pixel Fillrate
81.696 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
3.76 GPixel/s
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Texture Fillrate
204.24 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
7.52 GTexel/s
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L1
64KB/SM Tex
128KB/SM
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L1
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Unknown
L2
3MB Shared
L2
64KB Shared
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6GB
GDDR6
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256MB
GDDR3
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Bus Width
192Bit
Bus Width
128Bit
Clock
1750MHz
Transfer Rate
14GT/s
Bandwidth
336GB/s
Clock
635MHz
Transfer Rate
1.3GT/s
Bandwidth
20.3GB/s
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TDP
115W
TDP
20W
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No Ports
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No Ports
Max Resolution
7680x4320
Max Resolution
2560x1600
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Variable Refresh Rate
G-Sync
FreeSync
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Variable Refresh Rate
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Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
3
Multi Monitor Support
2
Content Protection
HDCP 2.3
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Model
NVENC 7
No Encoders
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Codec
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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Model
NVDEC 5
No Decoders
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
VP8
VP9
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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AV1
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Direct X
12
Direct 3D
12_2
Direct X
11
Direct 3D
10_0
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
OpenCL
1.1
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Shader Model
6.6
CUDA
8.6
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PureVideo HD
VP11
VDPAU
Feature Set K
Shader Model
4.0
CUDA
1.1
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PureVideo HD
VP2
VDPAU
Feature Set A
Not a Card
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PCIe Version
4.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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PCIe Version
2.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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