Intel Arc A550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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Intel Arc A550M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A550M 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

Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A550M +6043%

3.686 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Arc A550M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2007

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

16

RT Cores

-

8 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

115.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

7.373 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.686 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

G84

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

80 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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