NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition videocard review

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 5 October 2007. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on Tesla microarchitecture codenamed G84.

Core clock speed - 470 MHz. Texture fill rate - 7.52 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 32. Floating-point performance - 60.16 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 80 nm. Transistors count - 289 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 20 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1270 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 20.32 GB / s.

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	Tesla
Code name	G84
Launch date	5 October 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated
Type	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	470 MHz
Floating-point performance	60.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	7.52 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	289 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	20.32 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1270 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3