NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 M270

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R7 M270

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 M270 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock825MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M270 +955%

0.633 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R7 M270

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

825 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.80 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

633.6 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Opal

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Opal XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

77 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)

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