NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (89.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4850 X2 +1233%

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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Mobility Radeon HD 4850 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 8M

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

89.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

800

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

8.000 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.00 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

M98

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

M98 L2 (216-0732019)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

256 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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