NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M +1751%

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 8M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

700 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

1

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

16

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Mars

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

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

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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