NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce G103M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce G103M 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce G103M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Lower TDP (14W vs 20W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
+130%
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce G103M
0.026 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Sep 2009
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 100M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
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4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
8
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
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32 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
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Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.560 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.560 GTexel/s
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
25.60 GFLOPS
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Board Design
20W
TDP
14W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
G98
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
N10M-GE2-S
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
86 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
