NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 360M 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 38W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GTS 360M
+360%
0.276 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jan 2010
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 300M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
12
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
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-
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
275.7 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
38W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GT215
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
N11E-GS1-A3
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
