NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 555

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro 555

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon Pro 555 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 75W)

AMD Radeon Pro 555 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (81.60GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 555 +2076%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro 555

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 8M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1275 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

81.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.60 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1306 GFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

81.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Polaris 21

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 PRO

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

3 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

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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