NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon R5 M420

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon R5 M420

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 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 16.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420 +791%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon R5 M420

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 8M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Jet

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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