NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX +496%

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce GT 520MX

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

1

16

Shading Units

48

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.200 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

172.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

14.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GF119

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

N12P-GVR-B-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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