NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition 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 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition +1116%

0.73 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/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

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK107

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

-

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

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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