NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac 256MB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop 50W Full Specs

Summary

32 Shaders 470MHz	3,328 Shaders 1.89GHz
262MB GDDR320.3GB/s	8GB GDDR7354.8GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 60.16 GFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 12.58 TFLOPS
Form Factor Soldered	Form Factor Soldered
TDP 20W	TDP 45W

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP4 FP4 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-16 FP8-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-32 FP8-32 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor TF32 Tensor INT8 Memory Bandwidth TDP

GeForce 8600M GT Mac 256MB60.16 GFLOPSFP32

x1

GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop 50W402.6 TFLOPSFP4 Tensor Sparse

x6691.40

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed470MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1890MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 60.16 GFLOPSFP32	Peak OPS 402.6 TFLOPSFP4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP4 201.3 TFLOPS FP4 Tensor Sparse 402.6 TFLOPS
-	Tensor FP8-16 100.6 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 201.3 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 50.32 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 100.6 TFLOPS
-	Tensor FP16-16 50.32 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 100.6 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 25.16 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 50.32 TFLOPS
-	BF16 12.58 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 25.16 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 50.32 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 12.58 TFLOPS
FP32 60.16 GFLOPS	FP32 12.58 TFLOPS
-	FP64 196.6 GFLOPS
-	Tensor INT8 100.6 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 38.15 TOPS
Pixel Rate 7.5 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 60.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 15 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 196.6 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 32 Shaders	Shaders 3,328 Shaders
TMUs 16 TMUs	TMUs 104 TMUs
ROPs 8 ROPs	ROPs 32 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 104 T-Cores
RT Cores -	RT Cores 26 RT-Cores
SMs 4 SMs	SMs 26 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 1.54GHz
Boost Clock 470MHz	Boost Clock 1.89GHz
Tensor Clock -	Tensor Clock 1.89GHz
Shader Clock 940MHz	Shader Clock -

Cache

L2 Cache 64KB shared

L2 Cache 32.8MB shared

Memory

262MB GDDR3	8GB GDDR7
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 128-bit
Memory Speed 1.3GT/s	Memory Speed 22.2GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 20.3GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 354.8GB/s

Power & Thermals

TDP 20W

TDP 45W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 2	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Encoder

-	Encoder Model NVENC 9

Decoder

Decoder Model VP2

Decoder Model NVDEC 6

Card

Form Factor Soldered

Form Factor Soldered

Chip

Manufacturer NVIDIA	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer NVIDIA	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Tesla	Architecture Blackwell
Family GeForce 8000	Family GeForce 50
Branding	Branding
Codename NV84	Codename NV196
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date May 1, 2007	Release Date May 5, 2025

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 80nm	Fabrication Node 4NP
Die Size 169mm²	Die Size 183mm²
Transistor Count 289 Million	Transistor Count 23 Billion
Transistor Density 1.71 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 125.7 MTr/mm²

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