NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 540v 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

48 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (15W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 540v +46%

0.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

1

32

Shading Units

80

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

M92

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

15W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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