NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce Go 6800 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

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (20W vs 45W)

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (35.20GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

Score

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce Go 6800

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Nov 2004

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce Go 6

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-III

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

550 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

NV41

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

130 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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