NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 620M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (15W vs 20W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 620M
+321%
0.253 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Aug 2012
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 600M
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
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
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4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
4
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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
2.640 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.56 GTexel/s
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
253.4 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
21.12 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
15W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF108
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
N13P-GLP-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
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
