NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 445M 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 35W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (40.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 445M +446%

0.328 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 445M

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

625 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

40.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

144

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.420 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

328.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

27.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF106

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N11E-GE-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

35W

-

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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