NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A 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 45W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock936MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A +1896%

1.198 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 850A

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

902 MHz

-

Boost Clock

936 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.98 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1198 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GM107

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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