NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT 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 22.40GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9700M GT +62%

0.099 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GT

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

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

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/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

5.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

99.20 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

45W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

G84

NB9E-GE

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

144 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

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