NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800M GTS 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 50W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800M GTS
+166%
0.16 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
8
32
Shading Units
64
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
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32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
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Board Design
20W
TDP
50W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
G92
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
NB8E-GT-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
