NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 610M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 610M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 610M 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (12W vs 20W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce 610M
+115%
0.129 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Dec 2011
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
2
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-
-
-
-
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-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.344 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.376 GTexel/s
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-
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
129.0 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
10.75 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
12W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF108
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
116 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
