NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X 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 250W)
AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
0.06 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+5703%
3.482 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce 8M
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
635 MHz
Memory Clock
1362 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
20.32GB/s
Bandwidth
174.3GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.760 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
7.520 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.482 TFLOPS
60.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
217.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
250W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Amethyst
NB8P-GS
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
5 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
