NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M7820

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD FirePro M7820

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M7820 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 50W)

AMD FirePro M7820 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

FirePro M7820 +1766%

1.12 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro M7820

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

FirePro Mobility

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

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

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1120 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Broadway

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Broadway XT GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

166 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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