NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce G205M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G86 C79
GPU variant G86-770-A2 MCP79MX
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 210 million 314 million
Die size 127 mm² 144 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date May 1st, 2007
Generation GeForce 8M (8000M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-II
Predecessor GeForce Go 7
Successor GeForce 9M

Clocks

GPU clock 450 MHz 450 MHz
Shader clock 900 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory clock 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective System Shared

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB System Shared
Memory type DDR2 System Shared
Memory bus width 128 bit System Shared
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s System Dependent

Render Configuration

Shading units 16 16
TMUs 8 8
ROPs 4 4
SM count 1 2
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 1.800 GPixel/s 1.800 GPixel/s
Texture rate 3.600 GTexel/s 3.600 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 28.80 GFLOPS 35.20 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module IGP
TDP 20 W 14 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1
Shader model 4.0 4.0

Other Features

Integrated Graphics

Release date Jan 8th, 2009
Generation GeForce 200M
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 2 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 100M
Successor GeForce 300M

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