NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 9200M GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Lower TDP (13W vs 20W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
8 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9200M GS
0.022 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600M GS
+31%
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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700 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
11.20GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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1
SM Count
1
8
Shading Units
16
4
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
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16 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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Theoretical Performance
2.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.800 GPixel/s
2.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.600 GTexel/s
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22.40 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
28.80 GFLOPS
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Board Design
13W
TDP
20W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G98
GPU Name
G86
NB9M-GE
GPU Variant
G86-770-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
86 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
