GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G84

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2007

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

675 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

92.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

289 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

10.80

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2016 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

32.26 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

1.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2