NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 670M 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 670M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 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 670M +1240%

0.804 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 670M

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

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

336

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.372 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

803.7 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

66.98 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF114

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N13E-GS1-LP-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

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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