AMD FirePro M4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

VS

AMD FirePro M4000

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M4000 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 M4000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M4000 +2282%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

FirePro M4000

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

May 2007

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

512

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Chelsea

GPU Name

G86

Chelsea XT GL

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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