NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6830M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6830M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6830M 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 39W)

AMD Radeon HD 6830M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6830M +1433%

0.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6830M

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

32

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.200 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

920.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Granville

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Granville LP

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

39W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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