NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A370M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Intel Arc A370M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Arc A370M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)

Intel Arc A370M 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1550MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Arc A370M +5190%

3.174 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Arc A370M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Mar 2022

GeForce 8M

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

300 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1550 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.60 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

99.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.349 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.174 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

793.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

DG2-128

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

ACM-G11

Tesla

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

6 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

157 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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