NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon 530X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1024MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (36.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon 530X Mobile +2610%

0.786 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon 530X Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 8M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1024 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

36.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.192 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.58 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

786.4 GFLOPS

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

786.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

49.15 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Polaris 24

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 24 XT (216-0867030)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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