NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs 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
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
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
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
-
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
17.98 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.96 GTexel/s
-
-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1439 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
44.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
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
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
