NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 A220
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A220 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)
AMD Radeon R5 A220 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 A220
+313%
0.248 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 8M
Generation
All-In-One
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
635 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
160
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.100 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
248.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Caicos
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
