NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD FirePro M5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD FirePro M5950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950 +1040%

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

FirePro M5950

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Whistler

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Whistler XT GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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