NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared a Mobile platform GPU: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and a Desktop platform GPU: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 375W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +3617%

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 400

Mobile

Type

Desktop

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

1

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

16

Shading Units

512

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

GF100

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

375W

-

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

-

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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