NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX330 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX330 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1594MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.06GB/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 MX330
+1940%
1.224 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Feb 2020
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1531 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1594 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1752 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
56.06GB/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
25.50 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.26 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
19.13 GFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1224 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
38.26 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
10W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GP108
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
GP108-655-A1
(N17S-G3-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
