NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 305M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 305M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (14W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 305M +27%

0.037 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce 305M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

2

16

Shading Units

16

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.100 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.200 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

36.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GT218

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

N11M-LP1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.2

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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