NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230 +1206%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1519 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

2

32

Shading Units

256

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GP108

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

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

6.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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