NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm

Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i

Around 6% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 470 MHz

Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 470 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i
PassMark - G2D Mark		145
PassMark - G3D Mark		38

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G84	C73
Launch date	5 October 2007	4 October 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	1114
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	470 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	60.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	7.52 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	112 million
Boost clock speed		630 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCI
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
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