NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon R7 M460

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon R7 M460

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 M460 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1024MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (36.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M460 +1188%

0.786 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon R7 M460

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

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1024 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

36.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.192 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.58 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

786.4 GFLOPS

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

786.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

49.15 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Meso

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Meso XT (216-0864018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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