AMD Radeon HD 7950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

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AMD Radeon HD 7950M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950M +6079%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950M

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

May 2007

London

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1280

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

22.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

G86

Wimbledon PRO

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

127 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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