NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon Pro 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon Pro 580

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 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 185W)

AMD Radeon Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580 +18968%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon Pro 580

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 8M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1695 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

217.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

2304

8

TMUs

144

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.530 TFLOPS

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.530 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

345.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

185W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Ellesmere

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon 535 Mobile

2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

3

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

4

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

5

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 6610M

6

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7630M

7

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon RX 6450M

8

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD FirePro M5800

9

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330

10

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1900

Related News

1

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

2

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

3

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

4

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

5

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

6

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

7

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

8

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

9

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

10

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market