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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 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 250W)
AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2032 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GS
0.029 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition +11906%
3.482 TFLOPS
VS

Graphics Card

May 2007
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce 8M
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1362 MHz

Memory

512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
174.3GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
32
1
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
2048
8
TMUs
128
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
3.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.482 TFLOPS
28.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
217.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W
TDP
250W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-

Graphics Processor

G86
GPU Name
Amethyst
G86-770-A2
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
5 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
366 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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