NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 625 MHz
2.5x more memory clock speed: 2016 MHz vs 800 MHz

Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 625 MHz
Memory clock speed	2016 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI

2x more pipelines: 64 vs 32
Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 58 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Pipelines	64 vs 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	58 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	G8x
Code name	G84	NB8E-SE
Launch date	21 September 2007	18 September 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	675 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	32	64
Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	58 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	578 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.0	10
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2016 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0