NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 20 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 Pro Vega 20 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1283MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (189.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 20 +11224%

3.284 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 20

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 8M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

815 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1283 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

740 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

189.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.06 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.569 TFLOPS

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.284 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

205.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Vega 12

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Vega 12 XTA

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

Unknown

127 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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