NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 240M LE 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 12.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 23W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240M LE +60%

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 240M LE

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G96C

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N10P-GE1

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

Board Design

20W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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