NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs 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
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
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
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
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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
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-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
144
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.700 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.20 GTexel/s
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-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
388.8 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
32.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
35W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
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
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
