NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M 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 GT 230M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

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

32 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 23W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M +265%

0.106 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

1

48

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

23W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

G86

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

127 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

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