NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8830M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon HD 8830M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8830M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8830M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock625MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8830M +2658%

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon HD 8830M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 8M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

625 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

640

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Venus

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Venus LE (216-0846030)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

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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