NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GF108GPU NameG84
N12P-GE-OP-A1Model numberG84-303-A2
FermiArchitectureTesla
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size80 nm
585 millionTransistors289 million
116 mm²Die Size169 mm²

Graphics Card

Jan 5th, 2011Release DateApr 17th, 2007
GeForce 500MFamilyGeForce 8
(8600)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 400MPredecessorGeForce 7 PCIe
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size128 MB
DDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
128 bitMemory Bus128 bit
28.80 GB/sBandwidth24.00 GB/s

Performance

2.400 GPixel/sPixel fillrate4.800 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/sTexture fillrate9.600 GTexel/s
230.4 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance92.80 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory Clock750 MHz
1500 Mbps effective
600 MHzGPU Clock600 MHz

Render Config

96Shading Units32
16TMUs16
4ROPs8
256 KBL2 Cache32 KB
2SM Count4

Board Design

23 WThermal design power (TDP)47 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI

API support

12 (11_0)DirectX11.1 (10_0)
4.6OpenGL3.3
1.1OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
5.1Shader Model4.0
2.1CUDA1.1