NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 A240
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A240 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)
AMD Radeon R5 A240 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
288 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 A240
+998%
0.659 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 8M
Generation
All-In-One
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
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
5
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
320
16
TMUs
20
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.240 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
659.2 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Jet
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
Jet XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.69 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
56 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
