AMD Radeon HD 8830M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8830M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8830M 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 8830M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock625MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8830M +1233%

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8830M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2007

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

575 MHz

Base Clock

-

625 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

800.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

50.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

G84

Venus LE (216-0846030)

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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