NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E8870
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 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 75W)
AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Radeon E8870
+2460%
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Sep 2015
GeForce 8M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Saturn
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
Saturn PRO
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
