AMD Radeon R5 A230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

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AMD Radeon R5 A230 NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock855MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 A230 +1786%

0.547 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

May 2007

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

855 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

16

20

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

17.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

547.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

34.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

G86

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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