NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 26W)

AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition +686%

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

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

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 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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