NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 M380

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon R7 M380

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R7 M380 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 M380 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock915MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M380 +1851%

1.171 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R7 M380

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

915 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.64 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1171 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

73.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tropo

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

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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