NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M 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 680M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock758MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M +3240%

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

719 MHz

-

Boost Clock

758 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1344

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK104

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

294 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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