NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M6000
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 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 43W)
AMD FirePro M6000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
FirePro M6000
+1606%
1.024 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jul 2012
GeForce 8M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
Compute Units
10
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
640
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1024 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
64.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
43W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Heathrow
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
Heathrow XT GL
(216-0835033)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
