NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7450A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7450A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 7450A 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 7450A 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7450A +233%

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7450A

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 8M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

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

2.500 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Caicos

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

-

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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