NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M 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 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M +8862%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

941 MHz

-

Boost Clock

967 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1344

8

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GK104

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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