NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M 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)
Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1098MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce 940M
+1773%
1.124 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Mar 2015
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1020 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1098 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.57 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
35.14 GTexel/s
-
-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1124 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
35.14 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GM107
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
N16S-GT1-KB-B
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
