NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 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 GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition +2259%

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G84

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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