NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M 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 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480M +880%

0.598 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

GeForce GTX 480M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

11

32

Shading Units

352

16

TMUs

44

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.350 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.70 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

598.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF100

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N11E-GTX-A3

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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