NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500M 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 85W)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1450MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500M +7201%

4.454 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon Pro 5500M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Nov 2019

GeForce 8M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1450 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

32

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.40 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

139.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.909 TFLOPS

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.454 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

278.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

85W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 14

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Navi 14 ULA

Tesla

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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