NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6450M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon HD 6450M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6450M 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 12.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6450M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6450M +214%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon HD 6450M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

Vancouver

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

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Seymour

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Seymour PRO S3 (216-0809024)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

67 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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