NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M4100

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition AMD FirePro M4100

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M4100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M4100 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

FirePro M4100 +756%

0.514 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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FirePro M4100

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 8M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.360 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.08 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

514.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

32.16 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Mars

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Mars M2 PRO/LP (216-0842009)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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