NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 960M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/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 960M +2367%

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

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

1097 MHz

Base Clock

-

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/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

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G84

N16P-GX-A1

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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