NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M 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 GTX 580M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580M +3182%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

8

SM Count

1

384

Shading Units

16

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.920 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

39.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

79.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

G86

N12E-GTX2-A1

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

127 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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