NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M OEM 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 860M OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M OEM +2215%

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 860M OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Feb 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GM107

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-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

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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