NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +7681%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1064 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GM204

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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