NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9700M GTS +108%

0.127 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GTS

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 9M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

4

48

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.480 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

12.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

127.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

G84

NB9E-GS

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

240 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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