AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile 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

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile +998%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2007

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

G84

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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