NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro 580

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 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 185W)

AMD Radeon Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580 +9116%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro 580

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 8M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1695 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

217.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.530 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.530 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

345.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

185W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Ellesmere

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

232 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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