AMD Radeon HD 7470M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 7470M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470M 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 HD 7470M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock800MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Lower TDP (20W vs 25W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7470M +326%

0.256 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470M

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GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Oct 2007

London

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

750 MHz

Base Clock

-

800 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

160

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

6.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

256.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

G84

Seymour XT (216-0810084)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

67 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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