NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570M 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 570M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 570M
+1188%
0.773 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jun 2011
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
635 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
7
32
Shading Units
336
16
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.050 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
772.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
64.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF114
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
N12E-GT-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
332 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
