NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

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NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GT 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 9700M GT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9700M GT +241%

0.099 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GT

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 9M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

1

32

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

99.20 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

45W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

G86

NB9E-GE

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

144 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

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