AMD Radeon R5 M240 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R5 M240

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 M240 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 R5 M240 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (20.32GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M240 +998%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M240

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GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2007

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

G84

Jet XT

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

169 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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