GeForce 8600M GT and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600M GT vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce 8600M GT
92
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce 8600M GT
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
G8x (2007−2008)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G84M
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
January 2021
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
475 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
60.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.600
199.0
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
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