NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe 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 Radeon E9173 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

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 E9173 PCIe +1945%

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 8M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1124 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1219 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

19.50 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Lexa

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

E9170

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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