NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M 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 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M +1189%

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

16

Shading Units

128

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

G92

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

324 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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