NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

1632 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +6433%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

32

104

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

Board Design

148W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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