NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 A375
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 A375 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 A375 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 A375
+2065%
1.299 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Jan 2015
GeForce 8M
Generation
All-In-One
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
925 MHz
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
640
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.24 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
40.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1299 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Venus
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
Venus XTX
(216-0846033)
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
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)
