NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 A330

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon R5 A330

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 A330 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 A330 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A330 +998%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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Radeon R5 A330

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Oct 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

635 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Exo

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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)

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