NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M 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 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M +2040%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Blackcomb

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

212 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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