NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA NVS 5400M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM NVS 5400M 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

Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)

NVIDIA NVS 5400M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

NVS 5400M +321%

0.253 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

NVS 5400M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 8M

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

2

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.640 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

253.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

21.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF108

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N13P-NS1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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