AMD Radeon Pro 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 460

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 460 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 Pro 460 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock907MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (81.28GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 460 +2996%

1.858 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 460

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Oct 2007

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

907 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

81.28GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

58.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

1.858 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.858 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

116.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

G84

Baffin XT

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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