NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +5593%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 8M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Saturn

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

160 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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