NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 560X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro 560X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 560X 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 560X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (94.08GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 560X +3326%

2.056 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro 560X

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jul 2018

GeForce 8M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1470 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

94.08GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.06 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

64.26 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.056 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.056 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

128.5 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 XT (215-0908004)

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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