NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile 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 50W)

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile +2645%

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 8M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1287 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

640

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

20.59 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.647 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.647 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Polaris 23

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

103 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

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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