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.

 

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 1132
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