NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs NVIDIA NVS 4200M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

NVIDIA NVS 4200M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 1024MB VRAM NVS 4200M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 25W)

NVIDIA NVS 4200M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

NVS 4200M +155%

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

NVS 4200M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

1

32

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF119

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

N12P-NS1-S-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

79 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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