NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon 540 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon 540 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon 540 Mobile 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 50W)

AMD Radeon 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon 540 Mobile +1786%

1.151 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon 540 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 8M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.97 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1151 GFLOPS

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1151 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

71.94 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Lexa

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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