AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 16 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 Vega 16 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (307.2GB/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 Vega 16 +3961%

2.437 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 16

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Oct 2007

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

815 MHz

Base Clock

-

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

1024bit

Memory Bus

128bit

307.2GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

76.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

4.874 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.437 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

152.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 12

GPU Name

G84

Vega 12 XLA

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.289 billion

Unknown

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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