UHD Graphics 605 vs GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1069
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.17
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Generation 9.5 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameG84Gemini Lake GT1.5
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)11 December 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32144
Core clock speed600 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speedno data750 MHz
Number of transistors289 million189 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)47 Watt5 Watt
Texture fill rate9.60013.50
Floating-point processing power0.0928 TFLOPS0.216 TFLOPS
ROPs83
TMUs1618

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16Ring Bus
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth24 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVIPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 11 December 2017
Chip lithography 80 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 5 Watt

UHD Graphics 605 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 840% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and UHD Graphics 605. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition is a desktop card while UHD Graphics 605 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
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