NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile 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 85W)

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1074MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile +7231%

4.399 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 8M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1074 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.37 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.399 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.399 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

274.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

85W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Ellesmere

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Ellesmere PRO

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6450M

2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7470A

3

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

4

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH

5

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M275X

6

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

7

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7730M

8

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 1000 Mobile Ada Generation

9

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

10

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game