NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E9174 MXM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon E9174 MXM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon E9174 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 50W)

AMD Radeon E9174 MXM 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1219MHz

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 E9174 MXM +1980%

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon E9174 MXM

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

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

32

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 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

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

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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