NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA NVS 5100M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

NVIDIA NVS 5100M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 1024MB VRAM NVS 5100M 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 35W)

NVIDIA NVS 5100M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

NVS 5100M +300%

0.116 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

NVS 5100M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/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

4.400 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

116.2 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GT216

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

N10P-NS

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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