NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 320M 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
8 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 23W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.28GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
+13%
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 320M
0.053 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 300M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
790 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
25.28GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
3
32
Shading Units
24
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
8
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32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
52.80 GFLOPS
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Board Design
20W
TDP
23W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GT216
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.486 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
