GeForce 9300M GS vs GeForce 8600M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300M GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9300M GS Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Lower TDP (13W vs 20W)
GeForce 8600M GS Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
8 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9300M GS
22
GeForce 8600M GS
+31%
29
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-I
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
700 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
11.20GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
1
8
Shading Units
16
4
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
16 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.800 GPixel/s
2.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.600 GTexel/s
22.40 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
28.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
13W
TDP
20W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G98
GPU Name
G86
NB9M-GS
GPU Variant
G86-770-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
86 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
