NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 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

Lower TDP (20W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +3228%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 8M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Pitcairn

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

212 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

5.1

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