NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M +365%

0.284 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

GeForce GT 550M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/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

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.960 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.84 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

284.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

23.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF108

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N12P-GT1-A1

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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