NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GT 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 45W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce 9700M GT
+65%
0.099 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jul 2008
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.000 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.00 GTexel/s
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-
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
99.20 GFLOPS
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Board Design
20W
TDP
45W
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-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
G96
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
NB9E-GE
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
144 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
