NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition 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 32W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (40.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition
+853%
0.572 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Feb 2013
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
40.00GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
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32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
8
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.960 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
23.84 GTexel/s
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-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
572.2 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
23.84 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
32W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GK107
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
N13P-GS
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
