NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A 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 16.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 33W)

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A +200%

0.18 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 720A

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

-

Base Clock

775 MHz

-

Boost Clock

938 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

2

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF117

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 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

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