NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M5725

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD FirePro M5725

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro M5725 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 35W)

AMD FirePro M5725 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

FirePro M5725 +620%

0.432 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro M5725

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 8M

Generation

FirePro Mobility

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

432.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

M96

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

M96 GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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