NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GTS +337%

0.127 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce 9700M GTS

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

6

16

Shading Units

48

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.72 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

127.2 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

G94

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

240 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

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