NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX250 's Advantages
Boost Clock1038MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (10W vs 20W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce MX250
+1228%
0.797 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
937 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1038 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
3
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.61 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.91 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.46 GFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
797.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
24.91 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
10W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GP108B
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
-
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
