Radeon E9560 PCIe vs GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E9560 PCIe and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon E9560 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 12 years late
Boost Clock1237MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
2272 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon E9560 PCIe
+9400%
5700
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
60
Graphics Card
Oct 2019
Release Date
Oct 2007
Embedded
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
1120 MHz
Base Clock
-
1237 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2304
Shading Units
32
144
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.58 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
178.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
5.700 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.700 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
356.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
130W
TDP
20W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
NB8P-GS
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Tesla
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0