NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M 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 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M +1486%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 580M

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

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

8

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.920 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF114

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX2-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

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