NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile +980%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon 520 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 8M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Banks

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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