GeForce 8600M GS vs GeForce GT 525M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 525M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8600M GS Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 23W)
GeForce GT 525M Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
80 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GS
29
GeForce GT 525M
+693%
230
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 8M
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
2
16
Shading Units
96
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
3.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
28.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
230.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
19.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
23W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
GF108
G86-770-A2
GPU Variant
N12P-GE-OP-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
116 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
