NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 630 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon 630 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon 630 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 630 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1211MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

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

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon 630 Mobile +1966%

1.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon 630 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

May 2019

GeForce 8M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1211 MHz

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

8

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.38 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1240 GFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1240 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Polaris 23

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXL

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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