NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660M 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 50W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock950MHz
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 660M
+1116%
0.73 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Mar 2012
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
835 MHz
-
Boost Clock
950 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.600 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
729.6 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
30.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GK107
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
N13E-GE-A2
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
