NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7530M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 7530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7530M 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 14.40GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 7530M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (11W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7530M +500%

0.36 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7530M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 8M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

32

Shading Units

400

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

360.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Thames

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Thames LP

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

11W

-

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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