NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M 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 555M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M +548%

0.389 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 555M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

2

-

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

2.700 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

388.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

32.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF116

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N12E-GE2-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

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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