NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M2000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro M2000

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

-

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

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

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

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