NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M 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 50W)

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2400MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M +7957%

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 8M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 24

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XM

Tesla

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

6 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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