GeForce 9600M GS vs GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS 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 9600M GS 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GS
+15%
69
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
60
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Oct 2007
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.440 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
6.880 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
68.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
20W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G84
NB9P-GE2
GPU Variant
NB8P-GS
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
