NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 705A

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 705A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 705A 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 14.40GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 705A 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (15W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 705A +51%

0.091 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 705A

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

1

32

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

950.0 MPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.800 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.20 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

7.600 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

15W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF119

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

79 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

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