NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4860 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4860 +1263%

0.832 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

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Mobility Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 8M

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

832.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

166.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

M97

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

M97 M2 XT (216-0731000)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.826 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

137 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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