NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 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 210W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1250MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +14833%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 8M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1138 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

224

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

210W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Vega 10

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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