AMD FirePro M2000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M2000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M2000 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
464 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 33W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M2000
+1555%
0.48 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600M GS
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2012
Release Date
May 2007
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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-
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-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
6
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
480
Shading Units
16
24
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.800 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.600 GTexel/s
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-
-
480.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
28.80 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
33W
TDP
20W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
Turks
GPU Name
G86
Turks GL
GPU Variant
G86-770-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.716 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
