Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (68.26GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 25W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Iris Xe MAX Graphics +4123%

2.534 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Oct 2007

HD Graphics-M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

8

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

39.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

79.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

5.069 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.534 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

Generation 12.1

Architecture

Tesla

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

10 nm

Process Size

80 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.289 billion

95 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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