NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 23W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT
+33%
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Oct 2007
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
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-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
20W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G84
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
NB8P-GS
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
169 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
