NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 M330

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R5 M330

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M330 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 M330 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (18W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M330 +998%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R5 M330

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

955 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

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

-

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

-

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

18W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Exo

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Exo PRO

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

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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