NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E9172 MXM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM 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 35W)
AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
Boost Clock1219MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Radeon E9172 MXM
+1980%
1.248 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Oct 2017
GeForce 8M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1124 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1219 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
48.00GB/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
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.50 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.01 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1248 GFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1248 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
78.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Lexa
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
E9170
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
