NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS +15%

0.069 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9600M GS

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.440 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.880 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

68.80 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G96C

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

NB9P-GE2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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

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