AMD Radeon Pro 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 560

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

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 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 560 +2996%

1.858 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 560

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2007

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

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

75W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

G84

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

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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