AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

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AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 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 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand +1775%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

May 2014

Release Date

May 2007

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

320

Shading Units

16

20

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

G86

Sun LE

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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