NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon R9 M470

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470 +5196%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon R9 M470

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 8M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Emerald

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Emerald PRO

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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