NVIDIA GeForce 720A vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 720A

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A 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 720A 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720A +200%

0.18 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

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

775 MHz

Base Clock

-

938 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

96

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.752 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

15.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

180.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

15.01 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

G84

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

116 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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