NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W4150M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4150M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W4150M 's Advantages
Boost Clock850MHz
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
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 W4150M
+986%
0.652 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 8M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
800 MHz
-
Boost Clock
850 MHz
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
6
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.800 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
652.8 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Mars
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
-
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
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)
