NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 64MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X2300 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

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 6.272GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Mobility Radeon X2300

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Mar 2007

GeForce 8M

Generation

M6x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

392 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

6.272GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.916 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.916 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

M64

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

M64-M (216PVAVA12FG)

Tesla

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

80 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.105 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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