NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition 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 30W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 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

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition +1575%

1.005 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

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

10.05 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.12 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1005 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

30W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Broadway

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Broadway PRO (216-0769024)

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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