NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500M 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 85W)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1700MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500M +7878%

4.787 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro W5500M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Feb 2020

GeForce 8M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1408

16

TMUs

88

8

ROPs

32

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.40 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

149.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.574 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.787 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

299.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

85W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 14

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XTM

Tesla

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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