NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 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 120W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1301MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +32058%

9.326 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jun 2018

GeForce 8M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1138 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1301 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

1

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

3584

8

TMUs

224

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

83.26 GPixel/s

3.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

291.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.65 TFLOPS

28.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.326 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

582.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

120W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G86

GPU Name

Vega 10

G86-770-A2

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

127 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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