AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +2606%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2007

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G84

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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