NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +13417%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1664

8

TMUs

104

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

148W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GM204

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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