NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A 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 950A 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.03GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950A +2298%

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 950A

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

993 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/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

17.98 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GM107

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

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

-

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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