NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M 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 GTX 470M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470M +926%

0.616 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

4

288

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.420 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

25.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

616.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

51.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

G84

N11E-GT

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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