NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6470M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6470M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6470M 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 25W)

AMD Radeon HD 6470M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6470M +273%

0.224 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6470M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.600 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

224.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Seymour

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Seymour XT (216-0810084)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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