NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660M 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 50W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660M +1096%

0.73 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

GeForce GTX 660M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

835 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.600 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.40 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

729.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

30.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK107

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N13E-GE-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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