NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 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

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

Lower TDP (14W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition +33%

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

4

32

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G96C

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

121 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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