NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition 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 23W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.28GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition +265%

0.106 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

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GeForce GT 330M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.28GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

6

16

Shading Units

48

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

105.6 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GT216

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

N11P-GE1-A3

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

100 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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