NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 960M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

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 960M +2408%

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1097 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/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

18.82 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GM107

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N16P-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

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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