NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 800A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 800A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 800A 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (15W vs 20W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
GeForce 800A
+51%
0.091 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 800A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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635 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
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-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
950.0 MPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.800 GTexel/s
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60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
91.20 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
7.600 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
15W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF119
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
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
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
