NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W6170M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD FirePro W6170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M +3185%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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FirePro W6170M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

896

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Emerald

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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