NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 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 MX230 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +1206%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

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GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

G84

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

10W

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

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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