NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M 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

Lower TDP (20W vs 23W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M +220%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF108

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N11P-GE-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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