NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 710A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce 710A 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
Lower TDP (20W vs 45W)
NVIDIA GeForce 710A 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.83GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce 710A
+936%
0.622 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Mar 2015
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 700A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
901 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
28.83GB/s
Render Config
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-
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4
SM Count
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32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
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-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.480 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.92 GTexel/s
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
25.92 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
45W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GK107
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
118 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
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
