NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M 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 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GT +300%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce 9800M GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

4

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G92

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

NB9E-GT2

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

Board Design

20W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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