NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7490M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon HD 7490M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7490M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7490M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (30.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (9W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7490M +782%

0.256 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon HD 7490M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 8M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

30.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

160

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

9W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Seymour

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX (216-0810005)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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