NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon RX 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6550M 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 RX 6550M 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2840MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6550M +9593%

5.816 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon RX 6550M

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 8M

Generation

Navi Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2840 MHz

635 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

20.32GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

3.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.88 GPixel/s

7.520 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

181.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.63 TFLOPS

60.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.816 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

363.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 24

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Navi 24

Tesla

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

6 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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