NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + 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 7100 + 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 7100 + nForce 630i

Around 28% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 470 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 470 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i
PassMark - G2D Mark		37
PassMark - G3D Mark		42

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + nForce 630i
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G84	C73
Launch date	5 October 2007	4 October 2007
Place in performance rating	not rated	1648
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	470 MHz	600 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
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