NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon R7 M260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon R7 M260X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 M260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 M260X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock715MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M260X +1793%

0.549 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon R7 M260X

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Dec 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

620 MHz

-

Boost Clock

715 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.720 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.16 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

549.1 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Opal

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Opal PRO

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

77 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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