NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX 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 16.02GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 23W)

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1242MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX +1490%

0.954 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 940MX

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2016

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1004 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1242 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.936 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.81 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

953.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

29.81 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GM108

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N16S-GTR-S

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

Unknown

169 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

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