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

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GTS 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 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

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

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GTS +220%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce 9800M GTS

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

8

32

Shading Units

64

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G94

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

NB9E-GT1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

240 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

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