NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5730 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 26W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5730 +752%

0.52 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 5730

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 8M

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

400

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Madison

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Madison XT (216-0772003)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.627 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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