NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 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 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 23W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
+175%
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600M GS
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
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-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.800 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.600 GTexel/s
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80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
28.80 GFLOPS
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Board Design
23W
TDP
20W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G86
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
G86-770-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
121 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
