NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X 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 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition +12737%

3.723 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/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

29.09 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

116.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.723 TFLOPS

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.723 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

232.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

250W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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