GeForce 310M vs GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 310M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 310M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Lower TDP (14W vs 20W)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 310M
49
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
+22%
60
Graphics Card
Jan 2010
Release Date
Oct 2007
GeForce 300M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
667 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
4
16
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.424 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
4.848 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
48.96 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
20W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
G84
N11M-GE1
GPU Variant
NB8P-GS
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
