Can you compare an overclocked mobile 8600 GT to desktop counterpart?

Hi guys, I'm new here. Hopefully I'm not asking something stupid

I was wondering, since the desktop and mobile versions of the Nvidia 8600 GT 256MB videocard seem so alike, could you compare them performance wise? These are the specs:

Desktop:

- stream processors: 32
- core clock: 540 mhz
- shader clock: 1190 mhz
- mem clock: 700 mhz
- amount mem: 256 mb ddr3
- mem interface: 128 bit
- Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 22.4
- Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec): 8.64

Mobile:

- stream processors: 32
- core clock: 475 mhz
- shader clock: 950 mhz
- mem clock: 700 mhz
- amount mem: 256 mb ddr3
- mem interface: 128 bit
- Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): ?
- Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec): ?

Those numbers come from nvidia.com. Now, I know the mobile version has been succesfully overclocked to mem & core speeds comparable to the desktop version. So could you compare an overclocked mobile version to the desktop version in this case?

 

i don't know the mobiles specs, but I'm guessing the desktop version will kill the mobile one

 

wrong mD-

the desktop and mobile components are equal functionally. the only performance difference is the clocks.

if you clock an 8600m gt up to the desktop version, they are exactly alike, for all practical purposes.

obviously there are unimportant differences such as the mxm interface on the mobile chip, the size of the board it is sitting on, fans, other external differences. but the functional units are identical.

 

actually, the desktop would kill the mobile version when OCing

 

he is asking if you were to overclock a mobile part to the desktop stock clocks, how would the performance compare.

it would be equal.

obviously if you are trying to push both components as far as you reasonably can, the desktop will outperform the laptop either way.

that wasn't the question.

basically- there aren't any differences between the gpu's themselves other than the clocks.

 

my bad

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You could but you would need one hell of a laptop cooler to pull that off.

 

If the desktop 8600 GT and the 8600M GT have the same clocks, then they would be functionally identical. Their gaming benchmarks would be extremely close (depending on the RAM speed, CPU, etc. of the desktop).

 

Well, it's been done on a Macbook Pro I see, clocked even higher than the regular desktop version.

Anyway thanks for the heads up guys, now I can browse through alot of reviews for the desktop version and get a better idea of what performance I can expect when I finally buy a laptop with the 8600m

 

uh, be aware that only the mbp and asus g1s are the only ones with the ddr3 memory

 

I have also clocked mine up to 670MHz..For daily use I run at 620MHz.

The bad thing is that mine is with DDR2,and Ram tops at 500MHz..

 

at least you can get it up to 500mhz and you aren't lock at 400, plus the other upclocks help you.

 

rofl, are you sure?

 

Masterchef is right..

Same amount of stream processors,same clocks = same performance.

Fti MXM uses 16 lanes.