NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand +1775%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

20

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Sun

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Sun LE

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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