NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6610M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon HD 6610M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6610M 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)

AMD Radeon HD 6610M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

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

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6610M +608%

0.432 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon HD 6610M

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

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

432.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Whistler

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Whistler LP

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.716 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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