NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 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 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +7554%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

-

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G84

N16E-GXX-A1

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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