NVIDIA GeForce 705A vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 705A

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 705A 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

NVIDIA GeForce 705A 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (15W vs 20W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 705A +51%

0.091 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 705A

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 700A

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

4

48

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

950.0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

3.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

91.20 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

7.600 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

15W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G84

GF119 B1

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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