NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 970M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +4255%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G84

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

4.0

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