NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs Intel Arc Pro A30M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Arc Pro A30M 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 50W)
Intel Arc Pro A30M 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Arc Pro A30M
+6726%
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Aug 2022
GeForce 8M
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1500 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/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
64.00 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
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
