NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 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 122W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition +3521%

2.209 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.01 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.03 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.209 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

92.03 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

122W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK104

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX2-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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