NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8670A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon HD 8670A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8670A 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 45W)

AMD Radeon HD 8670A 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8670A +1489%

0.461 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon HD 8670A

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Feb 2013

GeForce 8M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/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

4.800 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

460.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

28.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Mars

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Mars XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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