GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs GT 610 PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGF119G84
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2 April 2012 (12 years ago)5 October 2007 (17 years ago)

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 cores4832
Core clock speed810 MHz470 MHz
Number of transistors292 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate6.4807.520
Floating-point processing power0.1555 TFLOPS0.06016 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816

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).

InterfacePCIMXM-II
Length168 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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz635 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/s20.32 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.11.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2012 5 October 2007
Chip lithography 40 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 29 Watt 20 Watt

GT 610 PCI has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

8600M GT Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 45% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 610 PCI and GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 610 PCI is a desktop card while GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI
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