NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs 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
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
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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
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4
SM Count
8
32
Shading Units
64
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
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32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
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Board Design
20W
TDP
75W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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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
