NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 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 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1139MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q
+2330%
1.458 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jan 2018
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1139 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1752 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
112.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
5
32
Shading Units
640
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.22 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
45.56 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
22.78 GFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1458 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
45.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GP107
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
N17P-G0-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
3.3 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
132 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
6.1
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
