NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA P106M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM P106M 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 75W)
NVIDIA P106M 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1291MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.13GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
1120 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
P106M
+4856%
2.974 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jan 2019
GeForce 8M
Generation
Mining GPUs
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1291 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1291 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
96.13GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
9
32
Shading Units
1152
16
TMUs
72
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1280 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
41.31 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.95 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
46.48 GFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.974 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
92.95 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GP106
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
GP106-505-KC-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
16 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
200 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
6.8
