NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M 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 950M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M +4862%

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

640

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G86

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

127 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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