ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5850 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

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 30W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 +1233%

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5850

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Oct 2007

Manhattan

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

800

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

20.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

800.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

G84

Broadway PRO (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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