NVIDIA GeForce G105M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce G105M 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 G105M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Lower TDP (14W vs 20W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce G105M
0.034 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
+76%
0.06 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2009
Release Date
Oct 2007
GeForce 100M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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700 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
11.20GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
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2
SM Count
4
16
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
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32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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Theoretical Performance
2.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
4.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
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34.24 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
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Board Design
14W
TDP
20W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
G84
GT218-300-A2
GPU Variant
NB8P-GS
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
