NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A730M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M 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 80W)
Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1100MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
3040 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Arc A730M
+11163%
6.758 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 8M
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
300 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1100 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
3072
16
TMUs
192
8
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
24
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
12 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
105.6 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
211.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
13.52 TFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.758 TFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
DG2-512
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Tesla
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
406 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
