NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M2000
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M2000 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 33W)
AMD FirePro M2000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
FirePro M2000
+700%
0.48 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jul 2012
GeForce 8M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
-
635 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
480
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
480.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
33W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Turks
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
Turks GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.716 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
